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Logic of discovery in Maxwell's electromagnetic theory
In Ronald N. Giere & Richard S. Westfall (eds.), Foundations of Scientific Method: The Nineteenth Century. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. pp. 86--114 (1973)
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