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The development of modern physics, which I have tried to portray in outline in the last three chapters, reached a highpoint in the works of Maxwell. To his great contributions to modern physics I would like to devote the last chapter of this book. Yet, before doing so a few introductory remarks will be in order.
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Kockelmans, J.J. (2002). Maxwell’s “Electric Science”. In: Ideas for a Hermeneutic Phenomenology of the Natural Sciences. Contributions to Phenomenology, vol 46. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0379-7_5
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