Postponed
Erik Curiel on Howard Stein's "On the Notion of Field in Newton, Maxwell and Beyond"
and Maxwell's "Faraday's Lines" and "A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field"
Instructions:
Stein paper:
1. Beginning up to Part II section 3 (pp. 264-282)
2. Part III (pp. 285-287)
Maxwell "Faraday's Lines":
1. Introduction up to section "Theory of Dielectrics" (pp. 155-177 in Maxwell's *Scientific Papers*)
2. Part II, pp. 188-195 (up to paragraph starting "Before entering...")
3. Part II, pp. 202 (paragraph starting "If a_1 b_1 c_1 represent the components...") to 209 (up to section "Examples")
Maxwell's "A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field":
1. All of Part I (paragraphs 1-20)
2. Part II, paragraphs 47-52
3. All of Part III (paragraphs 53-75)
Strongly suggested: Stein, "Subtler forms of matter"
Other suggested readings:
1. Maxwell's "On Action at a Distance"
2. Stein's "How does physics bear upon metaphysics; and why did Plato hold that philosophy cannot be written down?"