Edition of the Scientific Letters and Papers of James Clerk Maxwell

这项研究是一项长期编辑项目的一部分，这是詹姆斯·克拉克·麦克斯韦的科学信件和手稿论文的第一个综合版，分三卷，将由剑桥大学出版社出版。麦克斯韦是19世纪最重要的物理学家，他的工作在建立光的电磁理论和统计物理学方面具有开创性，这些工作是现代科学和技术的基础。在这项资助下，哈曼博士正在为该版本第二卷的编辑评论工作，其中涵盖了1862-73年。这一时期的手稿论文，特别有趣和复杂，为麦克斯韦的科学成熟提供了重要的启示，在这一时期，他写了关于场物理学和统计分子理论的经典著作，他的独特声誉在很大程度上依赖于此。修订的目的是使文本准确和完整。文本注释和介绍澄清了文本的模糊性，并建立了文件撰写的历史背景，采用了当代出版和手稿来源。这项工作将在哈佛大学与波士顿地区的物理学史学家协商后进行，它将以一种批判性的方式，为研究现代科学提供基本的原始材料。

This research is part of a long-term editing project, the first comprehensive edition, in three volumes, of James Clerk Maxwell's scientific letters and manuscript papers, to be published by Cambridge University Press. Maxwell was the most important physicist of the nineteenth century, and his work was seminal in establishing the electromagnetic theory of light and statistical physics, work that is fundamental to modern science and technology. Under this grant, Dr. Harman is working on the editorial commentary for Volume II of the edition, which covers the years 1862-73. The manuscript papers of this period, which are of especial interest and complexity, shed important light on Maxwell's scientific maturity, the period in which he wrote the classic works on field physics and statistical molecular theory on which his unique reputation largely rests. The edition aims at textual accuracy and completeness. The textual notes and introductions clarify textual obscurities and establish the historical context within which the documents were written, employing contemporary published and manuscript sources. The work, to be carried out at Harvard University in consultation with historians of physics in the Boston area, will make available, in a critical edition, fundamental source materials for the study of modern science.