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IN the British Association Reports for 1893, Mr. Larmor has attempted to show that a satisfactory theory of magnetic action upon light can be constructed by means of a modification of Maxwell's theory which was proposed by Prof. Fitzgerald in 1879; and he alleges, with special emphasis (see p. 349), that his theory furnishes “a consistent scheme of equations of reflection and refraction, without the necessity of condoning any dynamical difficulties in the process.” And on p. 359, after raising objections against a theory originally suggested by Prof. Rowland, and afterwards fully developed by myself, he says:— “But against this procedure,” that is my own, “there stands the pure assumption as regards discontinuity of electric force at an interface.”
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BASSET, A. The Theory of Magnetic Action upon Light. Nature 52, 618 (1895). https://doi.org/10.1038/052618b0
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