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faraday did not "suggest an electromagnetic field". rather i'm pretty sure he suggested the existence of one? some mathematicians get touchy about the E word (ol' kronecker had a stick up his ass that's for sure), so mb use 'presence' to appease that crowd? either way, it was missing words. |
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{{Main|History of electromagnetism}}
The physical phenomena that electromagnetism describes have been studied as separate fields since antiquity. For example, there were many advances in the field of [[History of optics|optics]] centuries before light was understood to be an electromagnetic wave. However, the theory of [[electromagnetism]], as it is currently understood, grew out of [[Michael Faraday]]'s experiments suggesting the existence of an [[electromagnetic field]] and [[James Clerk Maxwell]]'s use of [[differential equation]]s to describe it in his ''[[A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism]]'' (1873). For a detailed historical account, consult Pauli,<ref>Pauli, W., 1958, ''Theory of Relativity'', Pergamon, London</ref> Whittaker,<ref>Whittaker, E. T., 1960, ''History of the Theories of the Aether and Electricity'', Harper Torchbooks, New York.</ref> Pais,<ref>Pais, A., 1983, ''[[Subtle is the Lord: The Science and the Life of Albert Einstein]]'', Oxford University Press, Oxford</ref> and Hunt.<ref>Bruce J. Hunt (1991) [[The Maxwellians]]</ref>
== Lorentz force ==
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