On A Method Of Making A Direct Comparison Of Electrostatic With Electromagnetic Force With A Note

by James Clerk Maxwell

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First edition

London: Taylor and Francis, 1868-1869. First edition, journal issue in the original printed wrappers, of the last of Maxwell’s five important papers on the foundations of electromagnetic theory published between 1855 and 1868, here accompanied by the Abstract of the paper published at least six months earlier. In this paper Maxwell finally gives experimental proof that light consists of electromagnetic waves, which he

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