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By Edmund Taylor
Whittaker

Published 1910
Longmans, Green and co
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CHAPTER I	1
Descartes, AETHER, angles of incidence
Petrus Peregrinus Gilbert Descartes	7
Descartes, Fermat, wave-front
Newton overthrows Hookes theory of colours	15
aether, theory of colour, Bologna
Newtons theories of the periodicity of homogeneous light and	21
wave-front, Christiaan Huygens, spheroids
Newton shows that rays obtained by double refraction have sides	28
phlogiston, chemical elements, Opticks
Desaguliers	37
Leyden jar, Stephen Gray, electrified

Final overthrow by Aepiuus of the doctrine of effluvia	48
Aepinus, electric charges, Canton
Cavendish	51
Aepinus, law of attraction, Coulomb
Coulomb	57
Gamma Functions, Coulomb, conductor
The equivalent surface and volumedistributions of magnetism	64
magnetic potential, frog, perfect conductor
Rival hypotheses regarding the galvanic fluid	70
zinc, Leyden jar, frictional electricity
Davys chemical theory of the pile	77
chemical affinity, zinc sulphate, electropositive
Early attempts to discover a connexion between electricity	83
ponderomotive forces, Ampere, electric current
Seebecks phenomenon	90
electrostatic discharges, ponderomotive force, voltaic cell
CHAPTER IV	99
Newton's rings, corpuscular theory, John Bernoulli
Young proposes a dynamical theory of light in crystals	110
double refraction, Iceland spar, diffraction
Young suggests the transversality of the vibrations of light	121
velocities of propagation, Fresnel, ellipsoid
Hamilton predicts conical refraction	131
conical surface, refracted rays, plane of reflexion
CHAPTER V	137
longitudinal waves, transverse waves, curl curl
Cauchys first and second theories of light in crystals	143
MacCullagh, transverse wave, longitudinal waves
Green discovers the correct conditions at the boundaries	151
curl curl, equation of motion, potential energy
W Thomsons model of a rotationallyelastic body	157
tangential components, irrotational, Lord Kelvin
Influence of Green	167
Lord Rayleigh, diffraction, Kelvin
Rotation of the plane of polarization of light by active bodies l	175
angle of incidence, elliptic polarization, velocities of propagation
Lord Rayleighs objection	181
electromotive force, diamagnetic, chemical affinity
Boussinesqs elasticsolid theory	295

CHAPTER VII	222
electromotive force, conservation of energy, Ampere
Riemanns law	231
diamagnetic, Peltier effect, Weber's law
Gauss and Riemann on the propagation of electric actions	268
luminiferous aether, magnetic permeability, electric force
CHAPTER IX	310
hydrodynamical, gyrostatic
Researches of W Thomson Bjerknes and Leahy on pulsating	316
perfect fluid, inverse square law, incompressible fluid
Models of Riemann and Fitz Gerald	324
isotropy, vortex, irrotational
CHAPTER X	337
Helmholtz, ebonite, dielectric
Rowlands experiments 33f	340
J. J. Thomson, alternating currents, Poisson's equation
Poyntings theorem	348
magnetomotive force, Hertz, electromagnetic field
Hertzs assumptions and Webers theory	356
Hertz, oscillator, open circuit
The memoirs of Hertz and Hoaviside on fields in which material	365
J. J. Thomson, curl, electromagnetic
CHAPTER XL	372
electrode, acidulated water, anion
Electrocapillarity	379
electrolyte, electrode, mercury
The researches of Nernst	386
parallelepiped, osmotic pressure, cations
Researches of Pliicker Hittorf Goldstein and Varley on	393
phosphorescence, cathode rays, rarefactions
hypotheses regarding them	401
electrolysis, deflexion, X-rays
Determination of the ionic charge by J J Thomson	407
Becquerel, polonium, phosphorescent
Astronomical phenomena in which the velocity of light is involved	413
Algol, double star, solar system
Lorentz theory of electrons	419
curl, dielectric molecules, Lorentz
Rontgens experiment	426
dielectric constant, electric induction, equations of motion
Fitz Geralds explanation of Michelsons experiment	432
cosh, Fitz Gerald's, sinh
Larmor discovers	443
Natural Philosophy, circularly polarized, cosh
Connexion of Zeemans effect with the magnetic rotation of light	452
electric conductivity, thermal conductivity, kinetic theory
The electronic theory of metals	464
ORNIA, ions, volts

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