Arianrhod, Robyn (Author)
Oxford University Press
Physical Details: 323 pp.; bibl.; index
Language: English
Description On how Maxwell's use of mathematics “resolved the seemingly insoluble controversy between Faraday's idea of lines of force and Newton's theory of action-at-a-distance.” (from publisher)
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