Publisher's Synopsis
The task of giving some account of Maxwell's work of describing the share that he has taken in the advance of Physical Science during the latter half of this nineteenth century-has proved no light labour. The problems, which he attacked are of such magnitude and complexity, that the attempt to explain them find their importance, satisfactorily, without the aid of symbols, is almost foredoomed to failure. However, the attempt has been made, in the belief that there are many who, though they cannot follow the mathematical analysis of Maxwell's work, have sufficient general knowledge of physical ideas and principles to make an account of Maxwell and of the development of the truths that be discovered, subjects of intelligent interest.
