Building upon the experimental findings of Michael Faraday and others, Maxwell not only formulated these phenomena mathematically, but also proposed that light itself was a form of electromagnetic wave.

根据迈克尔·法拉第等人的实验结果，麦克斯韦不仅用数学公式表述了这些现象，而且还提出光本身是电磁波的一种形式。