A History of the Theories of Aether and Electricity: From the Age of Descartes to the Close of the Nineteenth Century (1910), (Fully Illustrated)

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In 1910, E. T. Whittaker wrote A History of the Theories of Aether and Electricity , which gave a very detailed account of the aether theories from Rene Descartes to Hendrik Lorentz, and which made Whittaker a respected historian of science. Though the book was a History , Whittaker showed his own brilliance in his exposition of relativity. (Fully illustrated)