Abstract
IN this little book the author publishes some lectures delivered before a society of German engineers. The subjects for discussion do not seem to have been selected on any principle, and are inadequately represented by the title. The first chapter deals with Newtonian potential, the second with logarithmic potential; neither of these topics can be described as “neueren Wandlungen.” We then proceed to the theories of electromagnetism based on “action at a distance,” and are informed at the conclusion that these developments are also not new, having been superseded by the Faraday-Maxwell theory, to which the next chapter is devoted. The author devotes a considerable amount of space to analogical representations of the electric field, but the electromagnetic theory of light is considered beyond his scope.
Die neueren Wandlungen der elektrischen Theorien einschiesslich der Elektronentheorie zwei Vortrage.
By Dr. Gustave Holzmüller. Pp. viii + 119. (Berlin: Julius Springer, 1906.)
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C., N. Die neueren Wandlungen der elektrischen Theorien einschiesslich der Elektronentheorie zwei Vortrage . Nature 74, 380 (1906). https://doi.org/10.1038/074380a0
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