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Maxwell's Papers

steve_bank

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I used to have Dover reprints but there are no copyrights. The only difficulty is he used quaternions. I did not absorb it but read it to follow his reasoning.

http://strangebeautiful.com/other-texts/maxwell-scientificpapers-vol-i-dover.pdf
http://strangebeautiful.com/other-texts/maxwell-scientificpapers-vol-ii-dover.pdf

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell's_equations

They are used routinely. In different forms faraday's and ampere's laws are used to design transformers and inductors. In terms of impact on society in terms of applied science I put Newton and Maxwell at the top. Given that nether developed in a complete vacuum and both built on predecessors.

Fundamentally they are expressions of conservation. Curl and divergence.
 
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