Maxwell's "electric science"

pp. 102-174

in: Joseph Kockelmans, Ideas for a hermeneutic phenomenology of the natural sciences II, Berlin, Springer, 2002

Abstract

The development of modern physics, which I have tried to portray in outline in the last three chapters, reached a highpoint in the works of Maxwell. To his great contributions to modern physics I would like to devote the last chapter of this book. Yet, before doing so a few introductory remarks will be in order.