A History of the Theories of Aether and Electricity
A History of the Theories of Aether and Electricity
The Theories of the Aether in the 17th Century
Chapter 1
Descartes' Theory of the Aether
Chapter 1b
Fermat's Principle of Least Time
Chapter 1c
Hooke's Theory: Hooke Versus Newton
Chapter 1d
Light as Vibrations in the Aether
Chapter 1e
Huygen's Principle
Chapter 1f
Electric And Magnetic Science Prior To The Introduction Of The Potentials
Chapter 2
Wilhelm Jacob s'Gravesande's Light-corpuscles
Chapter 2b
Wilhelm Jacob s'Gravesande
Chapter 2c
Benjamin Franklin
Chapter 2d
Franklin's law of the conservation of electric charge
Chapter 2e
Franklin's law of the conservation of electric charge
Chapter 2f
The one-fluid theory of electricity
Chapter 2g
Siméon Denis Poisson
Chapter 2h
Galvanism, Thom Galvani To Ohm
Chapter 3
The Discovery by Volta
Chapter 3b
Berzelius' Theory
Chapter 3c
Hans Christian Oersted
Chapter 3d
Ampère's Work
Chapter 3e
The Luminiferous Medium, From Bradley To Fresnel
Chapter 4
Leonhard Euler and Thomas Young
Chapter 4b
Augustin Fresnel
Chapter 4c
Augustin Fresnel
Chapter 4d
Non-polarized Light
Chapter 4e