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Quantum Foundations of Electromagnetism. mitpress 
In this book Carver Mead offers a radically new approach to the standard problems of electromagnetic theory. Motivated by the belief that the goal of scientific research should be the simplification and unification of knowledge, he describes a new way of doing electrodynamics--collective electrodynamics--that does not rely on Maxwell's equations, but rather uses the quantum nature of matter as its sole basis. google
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MEAD, Carver A., 2000. Collective electrodynamics: quantum foundations of electromagnetism. Cambridge, Mass: The MIT Press. ISBN 978-0-262-13378-4.
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