nLab Edmund T. Whittaker

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Selected writings

On the history of electromagnetism:

• Edmund T. Whittaker:

  A History of the Theories of Aether and Electricity

  • Vol. 1: The Classical Theories

    From the age of Descartes to the close of the Nineteenth century

    (1910, 1951) [pdf]

  • Vol. 2: The Modern Theories 1900-1926

    (1953) [pdf]

  reprinted by Humanities Press (1973)

  [Wikipedia entry]

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