Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 The background to Maxwell's electromagnetic theory
- 2 Mechanical image and reality in Maxwell's electromagnetic theory
- 3 The elaboration of the molecular-vortex model
- 4 The introduction of the displacement current
- 5 The origin of the electromagnetic theory of light
- 6 Beyond molecular vortices
- Conclusion
- Appendix 1 Draft of “On Physical Lines of Force,” a fragment
- Appendix 2 Drafts of “A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field”
- Appendix 3 Vortex rotations in a curl-free region
- Notes
- Index
Appendix 2 - Drafts of “A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field”
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 October 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 The background to Maxwell's electromagnetic theory
- 2 Mechanical image and reality in Maxwell's electromagnetic theory
- 3 The elaboration of the molecular-vortex model
- 4 The introduction of the displacement current
- 5 The origin of the electromagnetic theory of light
- 6 Beyond molecular vortices
- Conclusion
- Appendix 1 Draft of “On Physical Lines of Force,” a fragment
- Appendix 2 Drafts of “A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field”
- Appendix 3 Vortex rotations in a curl-free region
- Notes
- Index
Summary
Manuscript material relating to “Dynamical Theory” and of interest in connection with Chapter 6, Section 1, includes four pages in the Maxwell manuscript materials at the University Library, Cambridge (in Add. MSS 7655, V, c/8; c/11; and V, f/4), to which I shall make reference as follows: Three pages, apparently representing parts of an early draft of “Dynamical Theory,” and corresponding to pp. 559–61, 568, and 569, I shall denote “[DT, A],” “[DT, B],” and “[DT, C]”; a fourth, apparently representing part of a later draft of “Dynamical Theory,” and corresponding to p. 578, I shall denote “[DT, D].” The correspondences to the cited parts of “Dymanical Theory” are not in doubt; that A, B, and C are earlier is suggested by the numbering of the equations, which differs from the published version, whereas D agrees with the published version in numbering of equations. A and B are pages numbered 22 and 23 (evidently in Maxwell's hand), in V, c/8; C is a page numbered 24, in V, f/4, but helpfully identified in the handlist to Add. MSS 7655 as belonging with A and B. D is in V, c/11. Also of interest is the manuscript of “Dynamical Theory” that was submitted to the Royal Society and is preserved there – PT. 72.7 – to which I shall refer as “Dynamical Theory [MS].” (I am informed that much of this material will be published in Harman, ed., Letters and Papers of Maxwell, 2.)
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- Innovation in Maxwell's Electromagnetic TheoryMolecular Vortices, Displacement Current, and Light, pp. 180 - 181Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1992