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HE proposed Theory seeks for the origin of electromagnetic effects in the medium surrounding the electric or magnetic bodies, and assumes that they act on each other not immediately at a distance, but through the intervention of this medium.
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A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field1. Nature 119, 125–127 (1927). https://doi.org/10.1038/119125a0
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