Abstract
DR. CURRY bases his work, which is almost entirely analytical, on Maxwell's equations of the electromagnetic field. These equations suffice to account for the phenomena of electromagnetism, and the book is a discussion of the properties of electromagnetic waves in which the condition that the wavelength is short is generally, but by no means always, introduced. In these equations four vectors are concerned, the electric and magnetic forces, and the electric and magnetic displacements, or, as Dr. Curry prefers to call them, the electric and magnetic moments. The type of equation satisfied by each of these vectors is the same, and it is not necessary for Dr. Curry's purpose to identify the light vector definitely with either. It is another vector satisfying an equation of the same type.
The Electromagnetic Theory of Light.
By Dr. C. E. Curry. Part i. Pp. xv + 400. (London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1905.) Price 12s. net.
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The Electromagnetic Theory of Light . Nature 73, 316–317 (1906). https://doi.org/10.1038/073316a0
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