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Electrostatic fields arise from electric charges at rest and can be observed through the actions of forces.
Magnetostatic fields arise from stationary electric currents, i.e. from moving electric charges. The observation is that an on the whole uncharged but current-carrying conductor exerts a force. Since an uncharged system cannot produce an electric field one ascribes to this force another type of field which is called the magnetic field.
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Nolting, W. (2016). Magnetostatics. In: Theoretical Physics 3. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40168-3_3
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