 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - Electronic journals - 1882 - 588 pages
...with Pizeau's value of the velocity of light in air, viz., 314,858,000 metres per second, Maxwell drew the inference, that " light consists in the transverse...undulations of the same medium, which is the cause of the electric and magnetic phenomena." He also proved that the specific inductive capacity of a dielectric... | |
 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - Electronic journals - 1882 - 576 pages
...Fizeau's value of the velocity of light in air, viz., 314,858,000 metres per second, Maxwell drew ihe inference, that " light consists in the transverse...undulations of the same medium, which is the cause of the electric and magnetic phenomena." He also proved that the specific inductive capacity of a dielectric... | |
 | John Michels (Journalist) - Science - 1916 - 958 pages
...this point that the whole matter was taken up and eventually theoretically solved by Maxwell. He said: We can scarcely avoid the inference that light consists...which is the cause of electric and magnetic phenomena. At the time Maxwell did not examine whether this relation was confirmed by experiment. For years the... | |
 | John Michels (Journalist) - Science - 1916 - 950 pages
...this point that the whole matter was taken up and eventually theoretically solved by Maxwell. He said: We can scarcely avoid the inference that light consists...which is the cause of electric and magnetic phenomena. At the time Maxwell did not examine whether this relation was confirmed by experiment. For years the... | |
 | John Theodore Merz - Philosophy, Modern - 1912 - 848 pages
...agrees so exactly with the velocity of light calculated from the optical experimenta of M. Fizeau, that we can scarcely avoid the inference that light consists...is the cause of electric and magnetic phenomena." optical, electrical, and magnetic phenomena, which by carefully devised experiments might be verified... | |
 | John Theodore Merz - Philosophy, Modern - 1903 - 832 pages
...agrees so exactly with the velocity of light calculated from the optical experiments of M. Fizean, that we can scarcely avoid the inference that light consists in the transverse undulations of the same medinm which is the cause of electric and magnetic phenomena." optical, electrical, and magnetic phenomena,... | |
 | Wilhelm Eduard Weber, Rudolf Hermann Arndt Kohlrausch - Electric measurements - 1904 - 128 pages
...agrees so exactly with the velocity of light calculated from the optical experimenta of M. Fixeau, that we can scarcely *avoid the inference that light consists...is the cause of electric and magnetic phenomena«. Und in Maxweih berühmter Abhandlung: »A Dynamical Theory of the Eleetromagnetic] Field«, Part IV,... | |
 | Edmund Taylor Whittaker - Electricity - 1910 - 502 pages
...hesitate to assert the identity of the two phenomena. "We can scarcely avoid the inference," he said, " that light consists in the transverse undulations...is the cause of electric and magnetic phenomena." Thus was answered the question which Priestley had asked almost exactly a hundred years before :f "... | |
 | Physics - 1915 - 794 pages
...Maxwell genau die der Lichtstrahlen sein. Es wäre somit ein Lichtstrahl eine elektrische Welle. , We can scarcely avoid the inference that light consists...is the cause of electric and magnetic phenomena." Die Fremdartigkeit dieser Maxwellschen Vorstellungen, besonders die seiner Verschiebungsströme —... | |
 | William Thompson Sedgwick, Harry Walter Tyler - Science - 1917 - 522 pages
...medium, if these two coexistent, coextensive and equally elastic media are not rather one medium. . . . We can scarcely avoid the inference that light consists...which is the cause of electric and magnetic phenomena. — Maxwell. We must not listen to any suggestion that we may look upon the luminiferous ether as an... | |
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Fizeau, that we can scarcely avoid the inference that light consists in the transverse undulations of the same medium which is the cause of electric and magnetic phenomena. 
