Electrical Papers

Abstract

IN these two volumes the author has collected the papers on electrical subjects which he has rom time to time contributed to the Philosophical Magazine, the Philosophical Transactions, the Electrician, and other technical journals. The result is a work of some eleven hundred closely printed octavo pages; that is to say, on a rough estimate, it contains in printed matter about half as much again as Maxwell's two volumes on Electricity and Magnetism, and considerably more than the two volumes of Thomson and Tait. When we add that the author brings into action freely (though with perfect mastery) some of the most elaborate weapons of mathematical physics, and that considerable passages are moreover written in a special condensed notation, it will be evident that the task of the reviewer is no easy one. All that we shall here attempt is to give a general idea of the nature of the book, with some reference to its more original features.

Electrical Papers.

Two vols. By Oliver Heaviside. (London: Macmillan and Co., 1892.)