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math.HO2019
Vortices and atoms in the Maxwellian era
Isobel Falconer
The mathematical study of vortices began with Herman von Helmholtz's pioneering study in 1858. It was pursued vigorously over the next two decades, largely by British physicists an…
physics.hist-ph2018
Phases of physics in J.D. Forbes' Dissertation Sixth for the Encyclopaedia Britannica (1856)
Isobel Falconer
This paper takes James David Forbes' Encyclopaedia Britannica entry, Dissertation Sixth, as a lens to examine physics as a cognitive, practical, and social, enterprise. Forbes wrot…
physics.hist-ph2015★ 2 cited
Editing Cavendish: Maxwell and The Electrical Researches of Henry Cavendish
Isobel Falconer
During the last five years of his life, 1874-79, James Clerk Maxwell was absorbed in editing the electrical researches of Henry Cavendish, performed 100 years earlier. This endeavo…