Joseph Larmor

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Aether and Matter - a Development of the Dynamical Relations of the Aether to Material Systems on the Basis of the Atomic Constitution of Matter Inclu

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A Development of the Dynamical Relations of the Aether to Material Systems on the Basis of the Atomic Constitution of Matter, Including a Discussion of the Influence of the Earth's Motion on Optical Phenomena, Being an Adams Prize Essay

Aether and Matter

William Thomson Baron Kelvin

James Prescott Joule

Mathematical and Physical Papers

Originally published in 1929, this is the second part of a two-volume set containing the collected papers of the theoretical physicist Joseph Larmour (1857-1942). The papers are presented in chronological order across the volumes, enabling readers to understand their theoretical development and framing them in an accessible form for 'future historical interests'.

George Gabriel Stokes

The key professional correspondence of an important innovator in the fields of fluid dynamics, optics, and physics.

Selected and Arranged by Joseph Larmor

Memoir and Scientific Correspondence of the Late Sir George Gabriel Stokes, Bart.

Excerpt from Aether and Matter The following Essay was originally undertaken mainly as a contribution towards the systematic theoretical development of the standpoint which considers electricity, as well as matter, to be constituted on an atomic basis. This is, as regards its general idea, no recent hypothesis. Within ten years of the publication of the fundamental discoveries of Volta, in the year 1800, which first revealed the existence of permanent electric currents, Sir Humphry Davy had been led to maintain the proposition that "chemical and electrical attractions were produced by the same causes, acting in the one case on particles and in the other on masses," as the outcome of the researches on electro-chemistry which are recorded in his earlier Bakerian Lectures: and a little later the foundation for a complete system of chemistry was sought by Berzelius in a distinction between electro-positive and electro-negative atoms. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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