| Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1864 - 636 pages
...the electromagnetic field borrowed from the undulatory theory of light the use of its luminiferous medium. It now restores the medium, after having tested...disturbances, accompanied with electric displacements, the direction of the electric displacement being at right angles to the magnetic disturbance, and both... | |
| Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1864 - 636 pages
...the electromagnetic field borrowed from the undulatory theory of light the use of its luminiferous medium. It now restores the medium, after having tested...disturbances, accompanied with electric displacements, the direction of the electric dis' placement being at right angles to the magnetic disturbance, and both... | |
| Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1864 - 636 pages
...the electromagnetic field borrowed from the undulatory theory of light the use of its luminiferous medium. It now restores the medium, after having tested...regard to normal vibrations, the electromagnetic theory docs not allow of their transmission. What, then, is light according to the electromagnetic theory... | |
| 1865 - 388 pages
...the subject, and expressing his own opinions, defines light, according to his theory, as consisting "of alternate and opposite rapidly recurring transverse...disturbances, accompanied with electric displacements ; the direction of the electric displacement being at right angles to the magnetic disturbance, and both... | |
| James Samuelson, William Crookes - 1869 - 700 pages
...Clerk Maxwell, it may be mentioned, considers " light " as a mode of electro-magnetic motion. He says, it " consists of alternate and opposite rapidly recurring...disturbances, accompanied with electric displacements, the direction of the electric displacement being at right angles to the magnetic disturbance, and both... | |
| 1869 - 692 pages
...Clerk Maxwell, it may be mentioned, considers " light " as a mode of electro-nmjniclic motion. He says, it " consists of alternate and opposite rapidly recurring...disturbances, accompanied with electric displacements, the direction of the electric displacement being at right angles to the magnetic disturbance, and both... | |
| 1865 - 372 pages
...the subject, and expressing his own opinions, defines light, according to his theory, as consisting " of alternate and opposite rapidly recurring transverse...disturbances, accompanied with electric displacements ; the direction of the electric displacement being at right angles to the magnetic disturbance, and both... | |
| James Clerk Maxwell - 1990 - 1068 pages
...the electromagnetic field borrowed from the undulatory theory of light the use of its luminiferous medium. It now restores the medium, after having tested...disturbances, accompanied with electric displacements, the direction of the electric displacement being at right angles to the magnetic disturbance, and both... | |
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