“The fact that certain bodies, after being rubbed, appear to attract other bodies, was known to the ancients.”
Thus begins, rather awesomely, the preface to Maxwell’s massively important “Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism” (1873).
-cvj
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Who knows? Maybe Maxwell was being playful. (Despite the person on the throne at the time, giving her famous name to the era, both sex and humor continued to exist…)
Wow, at first I thought it was the initial sentence of a treatise on prehistoric sexual behavior…????
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