The Maxwellians"The Maxwellians is a remarkable achievement. Hunt combines the highest level of professional historical scholarship with a narrative that is lively and compelling throughout." Nature James Clerk Maxwell published the Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism in 1873. At his death, six years later, his theory of the electromagnetic field was neither well understood nor widely accepted. By the mid 1890s, however, it was regarded as one of the most