The Pavers of Maxwell's Pathway to His Equations

In this contribution, we will analyze and briefly present the scientists cited by Maxwell in his 1864 dissertation, "A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field" [1]. The analysis will distinguish between researchers that are merely mentioned by Maxwell and those for which a precise citation to published papers is given. For the sake of clarity, since in [1] citations were often given in a very short form without titles or pages, the full bibliographical references are given here [2-26]. Furthermore, for these papers we will also inves tigate the "second-level citations," that is, researchers cited by those cited by Maxwell. A third-level investigation was done only for [27], which is a self-citation by Maxwell in [2].