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Faraday’s Lines of Force and Maxwell’s Theory of the Electromagnetic Field

1408 F4 cover A note from the Editor: In celebration of the 150th Anniversary of Maxwell’s Equations, we are honored to bring you a chapter from the book The Life of James Clerk Maxwell, the 1882 original biography of James Clerk Maxwell. This chapter, entitled “Faraday’s Lines of Force and Maxwell’s Theory of the Electromagnetic Field,” provides a unique insight to Maxwell’s theory of electromagnetic fields.

On Maxwell, The Natural Philosopher

This article pays tribute to James Clerk Maxwell, highlighting his journey from a teased schoolboy to a revolutionary physicist, describing his curious nature, visualization skills, and groundbreaking electromagnetic field theories that transformed physics.

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