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By the first decades of the eighteenth century, mechanics alone of all the branches of physics had obtained a somewhat modern form. When Newton died in 1727, another major branch of physics, the study of electricity and magnetism, was still rather elementary. The most important discoveries in this area were made in the following hundred years, finally leading, unexpectedly as it often happens in science, to a new unified view of electromagnetism, light, and other kinds of radiation.
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Teerikorpi, P., Valtonen, M., Lehto, K., Lehto, H., Byrd, G., Chernin, A. (2019). Electricity and Magnetism. In: The Evolving Universe and the Origin of Life. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17921-2_13
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