...to the smaller treatise on electricity, published posthumously in 1881 ; especially these words : " In the larger treatise I sometimes made use of methods...Mathematical Theory of Electricity. I have since become aware of the superiority of methods akin to those of Faraday, and have therefore adopted them from...

...to the smaller treatise on electricity, published posthumously in 1881 ; especially these words : " In the larger treatise I sometimes made use of methods which I do not think the best in themselves, hut without which the student cannot follow the investigations nf the founders of the Mathematical...

...Elementary Treatise on Electricity," his last work on electricity, the following statement, viz., " In the larger treatise, I sometimes made use of methods...superiority of methods akin to those of Faraday." We thus learn that Clerk Maxwell succeeded in obtaining an explanation, which gave the line of force...

...Hendry, p. 228. on Electricity, Maxwell adopted an approach that was even closer to that of Faraday. In the larger Treatise I sometimes made use of methods which I do not think best in themselves, but without which the student cannot follow the investigations of the founders...

...action-at-a-distance approach. He later explained that in an effort to soften the novelty of his Treatise, he had "sometimes made use of methods which I do not think...founders of the Mathematical Theory of Electricity." 8 By continuing to use the potentials, Maxwell obscured some of the most important consequences of...