A Study In Theory Unification: The case of Maxwell's electromagnetic theory

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 23 (1):103-145 (1991)
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Margaret Morrison
Last affiliation: University of Toronto, St. George Campus

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Unification, realism and inference.Margaret Morrison - 1990 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 41 (3):305-332.
Maxwell's Methodology and his application of it to Electromagnetism.A. F. Chalmers - 1973 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 4 (2):107.

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