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German Electrodynamics in the 1870’s

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The most successful developments in mathematical physics in Germany were the various derivations from fundamental principles of Michael Faraday’s electromagnetic induction law of 1831.

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D’Agostino, S. (2000). German Electrodynamics in the 1870’s. In: A History of the Ideas of Theoretical Physics. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol 213. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-9034-6_5

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