Reprint of Papers on Electrostatics and Magnetism (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Excerpt from Reprint of Papers on Electrostatics and Magnetism

The present volume includes as nearly as may be all that I have hitherto written on electrostatics and magnetism. I have excluded from it electrical papers in which either thermo dynamics or the kinetics of electricity is prominent. I intend that, as soon as possible, it shall be followed by a collected re print of all my other papers hitherto published.

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Electrostatics and mathematically allied subjects, which originally appeared at different times during the last thirty years, in the Cambridge Mathematical Journal, the Cambridge and Dublin Mathematical Journal, Liouville s Journal de Mathematiques, the Philosophical Magazine, Nichol s Cyclopaedia, the Reports of the British A ssociation, the Transactions or Proceedings of the Royal Societies of London and Edinburgh, the Royal Institution of Great Britain, and the Philosophical Societies of Manchester and Glasgow. The remainder, constituting about a quarter of the whole, is now printed for the first time from manuscript, which, except a small part about twenty years old, entitled Electromagnets, has been written for the present publication, to fill up roughly gaps in the collection. The original dates of the republished articles, the dates of all new matter appearing as insertions or notes in the course of those articles, and the dates of the fresh articles have all been carefully indicated. The article on Atmospheric Electricity, extracted from Nichol s Cyclopaedia, was originally written at the request of my late friend and colleague the Editor; and for the permission to reprint it I am indebted to his son, my colleague, Professor John Nichol, and to the Messrs. Griffin, the publishers of the Cyclopaedia.
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