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Experiments played a major role in the development of the piezoelectric research in the pretheoretical phase. The formulation ofVoigt’s general theory followed empirical findings and itwas designed to account for the experimental results. Unlike this theory, however, the later theoretical developments during the 1890s, which I described in the previous two chapters, were virtually independent of the experiment. Among the issues they raised, only the theoretical question about the relations between related phenomena like piezoelectricity and electro-optics invited experimental resolution.
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KATZIR, S. (2006). EMPIRICAL WORK IN THE 1890s. In: KATZIR, S. (eds) THE BEGINNINGS OF PIEZOELECTRICITY. BOSTON STUDIES IN PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE, vol 246. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-4670-4_6
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