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The history of electromagnetism is intertwined with the revolutions in astronomy and mechanics, and with the history of science and intellectual history in general. It is convenient to distinguish three periods in the history which we might call early, classical, and modern, each initiated by certain clusters of critical, distinguishing discoveries. Curiously, these clusters occurred around the centennial years 1600, 1800, and 1900.
The history of science is science itself; the history of the individual, the individual. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Mineralogy and Geology
Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty—a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture. Bertrand Russell The Study of Mathematics (1902)
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Westgard, J.B. (1997). Introduction to Electrodynamics. In: Electrodynamics: A Concise Introduction. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2356-6_1
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