A History of the Theories of Aether and Electricity: From the Age of Descartes to the Close of the Nineteenth Century (1910), (Fully Illustrated) - Hardcover

by Edmund Taylor Whittaker (Author)

In 1910, E. T. Whittaker wrote "A History of the Theories of Aether and Electricity", which gave a very detailed account of the aether theories from René Descartes to Hendrik Lorentz, and which made Whittaker a respected historian of science. Though the book was a "History", Whittaker showed his own brilliance in his exposition of relativity. (Fully illustrated)