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After the eighteenth and nineteenth century discoveries of the relation between the electric charge and its motion on the one hand, and the electric and magnetic fields of force on the other, Faraday interpreted the fields of force, rather than singular sources of these fields, as the basic way of representing charged matter. Maxwell then formulated these relations between charged matter sources and the associated fields of force in terms of partial differential equations, now called Maxwell’s equations. These were then discovered to be the laws of electromagnetism, including the phenomenon of optics.
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Sachs, M. (2004). Electromagnetism. In: Quantum Mechanics and Gravity. The Frontiers Collection. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-09640-6_5
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