A Physical Treatise On Electricity And Magnetism Vol 1 Of 2

Author : James Edward Henry Gordon
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330352908
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (529 download)

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Download or read book A Physical Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism, Vol. 1 of 2 written by James Edward Henry Gordon and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Physical Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism, Vol. 1 of 2 My object in this treatise has been to give a complete account of such portions of Electrical Science as I am acquainted with and at the same time to regard them from a physical as distinguished from a mathematical point of view. I have throughout endeavoured, as much as I am able to connect the various phenomena described with the hypothesis adopted by Newton, Faraday, and Maxwell, namely - that there is no such thing as "action at a distance," but that all electrical actions are transmitted from place to place by strains of some continuous medium filling the space between. In order that the book may be more useful, I have entered very fully into the actual experimental details of most of the investigations mentioned, partly in order that any one wishing to continue the experimental investigation of the subject may find in the book accounts of what has already been done, and partly that students may see that electrical phenomena have a real existence, and are not merely abstractions or results of mathematical analysis. I may add that, for the understanding of the text of the work, no mathematical knowledge is required except that of algebra up to simple equations. There are, however, a few mathematical foot-notes and appendices. By far the greater number of the illustrations in the book are original, and have been engraved under the directions of Mr. Cooper, from drawings of the most recent instruments now in actual use, made by Mr. Cole and Mr. Webster, at Kew Observatory, at Cambridge, at King's College London, at several private laboratories, and at the factories of the principal instrument makers; and I must now express my sincere thanks to these three gentlemen for the skill and care displayed by them throughout the whole of a long and laborious task. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.