Maxwell’s
programme did supersede the Ampere-Weber one because it did assimilate
some ideas of the Ampere-Weber programme, as well as the presuppositions
of the programmes of Young-Fresnel and Faraday. But the opposite
proposition is not true. Ampere-Weber programme did not assimilate the
propositions of the Maxwellian programme. Maxwell’s victory over his
rivals became possible because the core of Maxwell’s unification
strategy was formed by Kantian epistemology looked through the prism of
William Whewell and such representatives of Scottish Enlightenment as
Thomas Reid and William Hamilton.
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