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Paper, 'On the theory of electrodynamics, as affected by the nature of the mechanical stresses in excited dielectrics' by Joseph Larmor

Reference number: PP/20/5

Date: 1892

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Larmor writes: 'A theory of electrodynamics was first precisely developed by Maxwell, which based the phenomena on Faraday’s view of the play of elasticity in a medium, instead of the conception of action at a distance, by means of which the mathematical laws had been primarily evolved.'

Annotations in pencil and ink.

Subject: Electricity

Received 23 April 1892 / 20 May 1892. Read 2 June 1892. Communicated by Joseph John Thomson.

A version of this paper was published in volume 52 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'On the theory of electrodynamics, as affected by the nature of the mechanical stresses in excited dielectrics'.

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PP/20/5
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1892
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Ink and graphite pencil on paper
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39 pages
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Manuscript

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Joseph Larmor

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Joseph Larmor, Paper, 'On the theory of electrodynamics, as affected by the nature of the mechanical stresses in excited dielectrics' by Joseph Larmor, 1892, PP/20/5, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pp_20_5/paper-on-the-theory-of-electrodynamics-as-affected-by-the-nature-of-the-mechanical-stresses-in-excited-dielectrics-by-joseph-larmor, accessed on 10 December 2024

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