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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 (1910), (Fully Illustrated)
Edmund Taylor Whittaker
A History of the Theories of Aether and Electricity: from the Age of Descartes to the Close of the Nineteenth Century (1910), (Fully Illustrated)
Edmund Taylor Whittaker
In 1910, E. T. Whittaker wrote "A History of the Theories of Aether and Electricity", which gave a very detailed account of the aether theories from René Descartes to Hendrik Lorentz, and which made Whittaker a respected historian of science. Though the book was a "History", Whittaker showed his own brilliance in his exposition of relativity. (Fully illustrated)
Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
Released | April 4, 2012 |
ISBN13 | 9781781391303 |
Publishers | Oxford City Press |
Pages | 492 |
Dimensions | 150 × 31 × 226 mm · 889 g |
Language | English |
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