Maxwell's contrived analogy: an early version of the methodology of modeling

DOI10.1016/j.shpsb.2012.07.001zbMath1281.78006OpenAlexW2079266351MaRDI QIDQ2436230

Giora Hon, Bernard R. Goldstein

Publication date: 21 February 2014

Published in: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. Part B. Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsb.2012.07.001

zbMATH Keywords

electromagnetismaction at a distancelines of forceWilliam ThomsonGeorge StokesMichael Faraday

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Electromagnetic theory (general) (78A25) Methodology of mathematics (00A35) Physics (00A79)

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