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Electric Quotes by James Clerk Maxwell
- Science appears to us with a very different aspect after we have found out that it is not in lecture rooms only, and by means…
- The experimental investigation by which Ampere established the law of the mechanical action between electric currents is one of the most brilliant achievements in science.…
- We can scarcely avoid the inference that light consists in the transverse undulations of the same medium which is the cause of electric and magnetic…
- What, then, is light according to the electromagnetic theory? It consists of alternate and opposite rapidly recurring transverse magnetic disturbances, accompanied with electric displacements, the…
- One of the chief peculiarities of this treatise is the doctrine that the true electric current, on which the electromagnetic phenomena depend, is not the…
- The theory I propose may therefore be called a theory of the Electromagnetic Field because it has to do with the space in the neighbourhood…
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