Maxwell's Mathematical Rhetoric: Rethinking the Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism - Hardcover

Simpson, Thomas K.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1888009365 ISBN 13: 9781888009361

Publisher: Green Lion Press, 2010

Synopsis

After many years of circulating in typescript form, this remarkable study by Thomas K. Simpson?a work long celebrated as something of an underground classic?is at long last available in a new edition worthy of its vision and depth. Green Lion Press is delighted to issue as a fine volume this work, the first major study of Maxwell's Treatise to take seriously the way Maxwell's presents his arguments. It is newly edited and presented in an attractive readable layout.

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About the Author

Thomas K. Simpson is Tutor Emeritus at St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland and Santa Fe, New Mexico. He has taught at the American University at Cairo, and is a co-founder of The Key School in Annapolis, Maryland.

Simpson was educated at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, St. John's College, Wesleyan University, and the Johns Hopkins University, where he received his doctorate in history of science in 1968.

He has written extensively on both Michael Faraday and James Clerk Maxwell. His wide range of interests, suggestive of those of Maxwell himself, extends also to schools, museums, and in general towards broadening the role of what the Scottish philosopher George Elder Davie has called "the democratic intellect."

His books include Maxwell on the Electromagnetic Field (Rutgers, 1997) and Figures of Thought (Green Lion Press, 2005).

Edition details

• Publisher: Green Lion Press
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1888009365
• ISBN 13: 9781888009361
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 376