komunikacja: A History of the Theories of Aether and Electricity

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A History of the Theories of Aether and Electricity is any of three books written by British mathematician Sir Edmund Taylor Whittaker FRS FRSE on the history of electromagnetic theory, covering the development of classical electromagnetism, optics, and aether theories. The book's first edition, subtitled from the Age of Descartes to the Close of the Nineteenth Century, was published in 1910 by Longmans, Green. The book covers the history of aether theories and the development of electromagnetic theory up to the 20th century. A second, extended and revised, edition consisting of two volumes was released in the early 1950s by Thomas Nelson, expanding the book's scope to include the first qua…

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Book Review: A History of the Theories of Aether and Electricity from the Age of Descartes to the Close of the Nineteenth Century

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A History of the Theories of Aether and Electricity from the Age of Descartes to the Close of the Nineteenth Century

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A History of the Theories of Aether and Electricity from the Age of Descartes to the Close of the Nineteenth Century

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A History of the Theories of, Aether and Electricity from the Age of Descartes to the Close of the Nineteenth Century

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A history of the theories of aether and electricity from the age of Descartes to the close of the nineteenth century

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Sir Edmund Taylor Whittaker was a British mathematician, physicist, historian of science, and philosopher who authored three titles that remain in circulation over a century after their initial publications. His bibliography includes several books and over one hundred published papers on a variety of subjects, including mathematics, astronomy, mathematical physics, theoretical physics, philosophy, and theism. Whittaker's bibliography in the Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society categorises his publications into three categories: books and monographs, maths and physics articles, and biographical articles; the bibliography excludes works published in popular magazines like Scie…