"One of the chief peculiarities of this treatise……" — James Clerk Maxwell
"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 same thing as the current of conduction, but that the time-variation of the electric displacement must [also] be taken into account..."
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James Clerk Maxwell
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