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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