 | 1873 - 636 pages
...general complexion, he says, of the treatise differs considerably from 1873-] Notices of Books. 531 that of several excellent electrical works, published,...before I began the study of electricity, I resolved to re_ad no mathematics on the subject till I had first read through Faraday's" Experimental Researches... | |
 | James Clerk Maxwell - 1881 - 540 pages
...is brought within the reach of methods of verification by actual measurement. The general complexion of the treatise differs considerably from that of...till I had first read through Faraday's Experimental Eesearches on Electricity. I was aware that there was supposed to be a difference between Faraday's... | |
 | James Clerk Maxwell - 1881 - 542 pages
...is brought within the reach of methods of verification by actual measurement. The general complexion of the treatise differs considerably from that of...mathematics on the subject till I had first read through Faraday,s Experimental Researches on Electricity. I was aware that there was supposed to be a difference... | |
 | Lewis Campbell, William Garnett - 1882 - 720 pages
...preface to the Electricity and Magnetism, gives Maxwell's views of Faraday in his own words:—"- 1 Before I began the study of electricity I resolved...first read through Faraday's Experimental Researches an Electricity. I was aware that there was supposed to be a difference between Faraday's way of conceiving... | |
 | Richard Glazebrook - 1896 - 234 pages
...already been quoted. In the preface to the " Electricity and Magnetism " Maxwell writes thus : — "Before I began the study of electricity I resolved...mathematics on the subject till I had first read through ' Experimental Researches on Electricity.' I was aware that there was supposed to be a difference between... | |
 | George William von Tunzelmann - 1910 - 696 pages
...in the preface to his treatise on Electricity and Magnetism, published in 1873. Here he says :— " Before I began the study of electricity I resolved to read no mathematics on the snbject till I had first read through Faraday's Experimental Refearches on Electricity. I was aware... | |
 | John Strong - 1988 - 420 pages
...general body of science. In Maxwell's "Introduction" (6), we learn The general complexion of (this) treatise differs considerably from that of several...first read through Faraday's "Experimental Researches in Electricity." I was aware that there was supposed to be a difference between Faraday's way of conceiving... | |
 | Frank Wilczek, Betsy Devine - 1989 - 388 pages
...decision not to learn the advanced theory of his time before studying Faraday's experiments directly: "Before I began the study of electricity I resolved to read no mathematics till I had first read through Faraday's Experimental Researches on Electricity. " It soon became apparent... | |
 | Peter Michael Harman - 2001 - 264 pages
...in the 'Preface' to his Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism (1873), to which he had first turned: 'before I began the study of electricity I resolved...first read through Faraday's Experimental Researches in Electricity'. He claimed that his own contribution had been to have 'translated what I considered... | |
 | Alexandre T. Filippov - 2000 - 282 pages
...to coordinate his ideas with his facts, and to express them in natural, untechnical language. . . . before I began the study of electricity I resolved...till I had first read through Faraday's Experimental Research in Electricity. I was aware that there was supposed to be a difference between Faraday's way... | |
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I was aware that there was supposed to be a difference between Faraday's way of conceiving phenomena and that of the mathematicians, so that neither he nor they were satisfied with each other's language. I had also the conviction that this discrepancy... 
