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The development of electromagnetic theory differs remarkably from that of mechanics. The reason is probably that mechanics has changed little in time. After creating a self-contained logical conceptual system, a language to describe forces and movement, and after the finding of the basic laws, that permitted one to calculate the different mechanical experiences in a precise way, it was essentially complete.
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Greiner, W. (1998). About the History of Electrodynamics. In: Classical Electrodynamics. Theoretical Physics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-0587-6_25
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