Describes experiments that demonstrate the principal facts relating an electric charge as a quantity capable of being measured, deductions from these facts, and the exhibition of electrical phenomena. It is supplemented by a selection of articles from his landmark book, Electricity and Magnetism. 53 figures. 6 plates. 1888 edition. Unabridged republication of the second edition published by The Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1888.
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The Analytical Theory of Heat by Joseph Fourier Landmark publication that first showed how any discontinuous function could be represented by a trigonometric series and advanced many other concepts of modern mathematical physics, in unabridged 1878 Freeman translation
A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism, Vol. 1 by James Clerk Maxwell Volume 1 of an important foundation work of modern physics. Brings to final form Maxwell's theory of electromagnetism and rigorously derives his general equations of field theory.
A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism, Vol. 2 by James Clerk Maxwell Volume 2 of an important foundation work of modern physics. Brings to final form Maxwell's theory of electromagnetism and rigorously derives his general equations of field theory.
