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MR. WATSON's criticism, that Hertz's equations are only true for places at some distance from the oscillator, is no doubt perfectly valid. [There is, by the way, an insignificant and obvious misprint of λ for ρ about the middle of his letter.] But this was entirely recognized by Hertz himself; he treated the oscillator as infinitesimal, knowing that it was nothing of the kind when you got near it, and refrained from drawing his diagram-curves into its neighbourhood; for this very reason.
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LODGE, O. Hertz's Equations. Nature 39, 583 (1889). https://doi.org/10.1038/039583b0
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