A history of the theories of aether and electricity : from the age of Descartes to the close of the nineteenth century (1910) -

E. T. Whittaker

American Institute of Physics

1986

808 páginas

1d 2h 56m

ISBN-10: 0883185237

Market: Physicists, interested lay readers, and historians of science. This survey of the history of electrodynamics provides insight into the revolutionary advances made in physics during 19th and the first quarter of the 20th centuries. The first volume covers the theories of classical physics from the time of Plato to the end of the 19th century. The second volume examines the origins of the discoveries that paved the way for modern physics with the emphasis on special relativity, quantum theories, general relativity, matrix mechanics, and wave mechanics.