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

Edmund Taylor Whittaker

Descartes' Theory of the Aether

Edmund Taylor Whittaker

Fermat's Principle of Least Time

Hooke's Theory: Hooke Versus Newton

Edmund Taylor Whittaker

Light as Vibrations in the Aether

Huygen's Principle

Electric And Magnetic Science Prior To The Introduction Of The Potentials

Wilhelm Jacob s'Gravesande's Light-corpuscles

Wilhelm Jacob s'Gravesande

Benjamin Franklin

Franklin's law of the conservation of electric charge

Franklin's law of the conservation of electric charge

The one-fluid theory of electricity

Siméon Denis Poisson

Galvanism, Thom Galvani To Ohm

The Discovery by Volta

Berzelius' Theory

Hans Christian Oersted

Ampère's Work

The Luminiferous Medium, From Bradley To Fresnel

Leonhard Euler and Thomas Young

Augustin Fresnel

Augustin Fresnel

Non-polarized Light

Fresnel's Formula

Sir George Gabriel Stokes

Sir George Gabriel Stokes

Cauchy's theories

MacCullagh and Neumann

Green and MacCullagh

Cauchy vs Green

Lord Kelvin's Theory

Stoke's Test

A Theory Of Metallic Reflexion

Dispersion to Fresnel and Cauchy

Joseph Boussinesq

Michael Faraday's Magnetic Fields

Electromagnetism

Faraday's Theory

Peter Mark Roget

Frederic Daniell

Sir John Herschel

The Mathematical Electricians Of The Mid-19th Century: Neumann

Weber's Theory

Weber's Diamagnetism

The Conservation Of Dynamical Energy

The Conservation Of Dynamical Energy

Gustav Kirchhoff

Kirchhoff's Theory

The Peltier Effect

James Clerk Maxwell

Maxwell Versus Thomson

W. Thomson

Maxwell Versus Thomson

Maxwell's Equations

Leroux's Phenomenon

Leroux's Phenomenon

Light Pressure

Michell, Bennet, and Euler

Magnetic Vortices

Models Of The Aether

Models of the Aether

Larmor's Theory

Riemann's Equation

FitzGerald's Spirality

The Followers Of Maxwell

FitzGerald's system

John Henry Poynting

Thomson's Theory

Heinrich Hertz

Hertz' Experiments

Goldhammer

Conduction In Solutions And Gases, From Faraday To Thomson

Svante Arrhenius

Sir William Crookes

Weber's theory

Canal Rays and X-Rays

The Theory Of Aether And Electrons In The End of the 19th Century

The Michelson Morley Experiment

The Theory of Lorentz

Lorentz Modification of Maxwell's Aether

Space Transformations

The FitzGerald contraction of matter

Can humans know absolute position in space relative to the aether?

Zeeman's Effect

Lorentz' Theory

0. W. Richardson