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Siegel's close analysis of the original texts - with careful attention to the equations as well as to the words - reveals that mechanical modeling played a cruc

James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879) had a relatively brief, but remarkable life, lived in his beloved rural home of Glenlair, and variously in Edinburgh, Aberdeen,

This book examines James Clerk Maxwell, creator of the electromagnetic theory of light and kinetic theory of gases.

Putting physics into the historical context of the Industrial Revolution and the European nation-state, Purrington traces the main figures, including Faraday, M

In the second half of the nineteenth century, British firms and engineers built, laid, and ran a vast global network of submarine telegraph cables. For the firs