Some Observations on Maxwell's "Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism"

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 1 (3):249-263 (1970)
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Maxwell on the logic of dynamical explanation.Joseph Turner - 1956 - Philosophy of Science 23 (1):36-47.
Maxwell's displacement current and his theory of light.Joan Bromberg - 1967 - Archive for History of Exact Sciences 4 (3):218-234.
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