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