An Elementary Treatise on Electricity
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An Elementary Treatise on Electricity is a book by James Clerk Maxwell
. The origin of the book are lecture notes Clerk Maxwell gave to members of the Cavendish Laboratory
, which he founded.
James Clerk Maxwell
James Clerk Maxwell of Glenlair was a Scottish physicist and mathematician. His most prominent achievement was formulating classical electromagnetic theory. This united all previously unrelated observations, experiments and equations of electricity, magnetism and optics into a consistent theory...
. The origin of the book are lecture notes Clerk Maxwell gave to members of the Cavendish Laboratory
Cavendish Laboratory
The Cavendish Laboratory is the Department of Physics at the University of Cambridge, and is part of the university's School of Physical Sciences. It was opened in 1874 as a teaching laboratory....
, which he founded.