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The Maxwellians
The Maxwellians is a book by Bruce J. Hunt, published in 1991 by Cornell University Press; a paperback edition appeared in 1994, and the book was reissued in 2005. A Portuguese translation, under the title Os Seguidores de Maxwell, was published by Editora Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais of Belo Horizonte, Brazil, in 2015. The book chronicles the development of electromagnetic theory in the years after the publication of A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism by James Clerk Maxwell. The book draws heavily on the correspondence and notebooks as well as the published writings of George Francis FitzGerald, Oliver Lodge, Oliver Heaviside, Heinrich Hertz, and Joseph Larmor. In 1980 Hunt had won the Nathan Reingold Prize (then known as the Schuman Prize) for his essay "Theory invades practice: the British response to Hertz".
The book has nine chapters; their titles and section headings are:
The Maxwellians
The Maxwellians is a book by Bruce J. Hunt, published in 1991 by Cornell University Press; a paperback edition appeared in 1994, and the book was reissued in 2005. A Portuguese translation, under the title Os Seguidores de Maxwell, was published by Editora Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais of Belo Horizonte, Brazil, in 2015. The book chronicles the development of electromagnetic theory in the years after the publication of A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism by James Clerk Maxwell. The book draws heavily on the correspondence and notebooks as well as the published writings of George Francis FitzGerald, Oliver Lodge, Oliver Heaviside, Heinrich Hertz, and Joseph Larmor. In 1980 Hunt had won the Nathan Reingold Prize (then known as the Schuman Prize) for his essay "Theory invades practice: the British response to Hertz".
The book has nine chapters; their titles and section headings are: