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Maxwell's Theory of Magnetism
Newton said the reader of this thesis should make their own mind up, whether it's material or any material. So why did Maxwell think this was on satisfactory? What did he do about it? Well, what is that you were left with a purely mathematical equation? Newton himself said, okay, well, I've given you the equation,. That's really all you need to ask me. Don't bother me with any of this other stuff. But really that didn't seem satisfactory to Newton himself in the ways I've been indicating. Neither did it seem satisfactory to men of Maxwell's generation. And what spurred them on really? The experimental investigations of Michael Faraday from the 1830s onwards