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MAXWELL, J.C. A treatise on electricity and magnetism. 2nd ed. Oxford, At the Clarendon Press, 1881. 2 vols. xxxi, 464, (2); xxiii, 456, (2), 40 (advert.) pp. W. tog. 21 lithogr. plates & some woodengr. ills./diagrams. Or. green cl. (Weak hinges, name entry on half title, a few foxing spots).
Second edition of Maxwell's major work, which demonstrated the importance of electricity to physics as a whole. The Treatise on Electricity inaugurated the second of two major periods in Maxwell's researches into electricity and electromagnetism. - Cf. Norman Library 1466; PMM 355 (first ed. of 1873).€ 500
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