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    ‘…a paper …I hold to be great guns’: a commentary on Maxwell (1865) ‘A dynamical theory of the electromagnetic field’ | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences
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    1. vonseifert 30 Dec 2021
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      Treatise was not to expound his theory finally to the world, but to educate himself by presenting a view of the stage he had reached.

      Maxwell wrote the Treatise

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    2. vonseifert 30 Dec 2021
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      Maxwell's advice was to read the four parts of the Treatise in parallel rather than in sequence.

      reading the texts in parallel.

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