Clerk Maxwell and modern science, C. Domb, ed.

Clerk Maxwell and modern science, C. Domb, ed. — Oxford University Press, New York, N.Y., 1964; 118 pages, illus. $4.00. This is a short, entertaining volume that links the 19th century history of electrical science with some of the latest developments in the field. One hundred years ago, James Clerk Maxwell was Professor of Natural Philosophy at King´s College, London. During his tenure he wrote “Physical Lines of Force,” and his greatest paper, “A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field.” The latter paper contains the famous equations of the electromagnetic field, and the substance of the prediction of the electromagnetic theory of light.