Abstract
THESE volumes have a melancholy interest for the student of electrical science, inasmuch as they are the unfinished work of one of its great masters. The printing of the second edition of the larger work had reached the second half of the first volume when it was interrupted by the premature death of the author. Up to this point considerable modifications have been introduced into the work; but the rest is merely a reprint under the superintendence of Mr. W. D. Niven, of Trinity College, Cambridge.
A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism.
By James Clerk Maxwell. Second Edition. (Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1881.)
An Elementary Treatise on Electricity.
By James Clerk Maxwell. Edited by William Garnett, M.A. (Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1881.)
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CHRYSTAL, G. A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism An Elementary Treatise on Electricity . Nature 25, 237–240 (1882). https://doi.org/10.1038/025237a0
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