Thomas K. Simpson

Features Newton, Maxwell, and Marx as champions of a scientific vision that leads to intellectual freedom and human emancipation. This title points toward a vision of science, common to these three thinkers, as a powerful means of attaining human freedom, material, intellectual, and even spiritual.

A study of Maxwell's Treatise that takes seriously the way Maxwell's presents his arguments. It is presented in an attractive readable layout.

Examines Maxwell's Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism with the tools of literary criticism, exploring questions of meaning, structure, and style. This title presents a definitive argument against Hertz's claim that Maxwell's theory is Maxwell's system of equations.

Major selections from Maxwell's papers on physics are accompanied by commentaries, notes, and a description of the historical and scientific context of his work