But even more significant than the advance in technology is the way that Faraday and Maxwell’s concept of the electromagnetic field transformed scientists’ view of the physical world. During the late decades of the nineteenth century a sea change was gradually taking place within the physics community as more and more people grasped the truth of Maxwell’s warning: mechanical models cannot be relied on to explain physical phenomena, and to use them risks confusing representation and reality.
-Nancy Forbes
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