Figures of Thought: A Literary Appreciation of Maxwell’s Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism

Figures of Thought: A Literary Appreciation of Maxwell’s Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism

Thomas K. Simpson
Role: Author
Written by a Tutor Emeritus of St. Johns College.

Thomas K. Simpson thinks Maxwell’s Treatise, in fact, is literature and he wants you to see it that way too. Simpson examines Maxwell’s Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism with the tools of literary criticism, exploring questions of meaning, structure, and style.

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