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In his early research on electrodynamics, published in 1884 with the title On the Relations between Maxwell’s Fundamental Electromagnetic Equations and the Fundamental Equations of the Opposing Electromagnetics, 1 Hertz advanced an alternative conception of the electric field:
According to Faraday’s idea, the electric field exists in space independently of and without reference to the methods of its production; whatever therefore be the cause which has produced an electric field, the actions which the field produces are always the same.2
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Hertz, Wiedemann Annalen 23 (1884) 84–103; Hertz [1896] 273–290.
Hertz [1896] 274.
D’Agostino [1975] 288 ff. The principle was extended to magnetic forces, in which case it affirms the identity of the loadstone magnetism with that induced by changing electrostatic forces, i.e., by the Maxwellian displacement current.
Hertz [1896] 274.
Faraday’s conception is opposite to Helmholtz’s conception of the correlation between matter and force: D’Agostino [1975] 292.
Hertz [1896] 274.
Hertz [1896] 274.
Hertz [1896] 275.
Hertz [1896] 276.
Hertz [1896] 276.
Hertz [1896] 278.
Hertz [1896] 279.
Hertz [1896] 281. Hertz [1896] 285.
Hertz [1896] 284.
Hertz [1896] 288.
Hertz [1896] 288–289.
Hertz [1896] 274.
Heinrich Hertz, “On the Finite Velocity of Propagation of Electromagnetic Action”, Sitzungsber. d. Berl. Akad. d. Wiss. (2 February 1888); in Wiedemann’s Ann., 34 [1888], 551; in Hertz [1962] 107–123, 122.
E. Aulinger, Wiedemann’s Annalen, 31 [1887] 121.
L. Boltzmann, Wiedemann’s Annalen, 31 [1887] 598.
Hertz [1896] 288.
Hertz [1962]107–123, 122.
Hertz [1962] 195–240.
Hertz [1962] 236.
D’Agostino[1975]316.
Hertz [1962] 210: “In the case that ether polarisations and force coincide”.
Hertz, Introduction, [1962].25.
Hertz [1962] 201, 200.
There he defined the velocity of propagation of electric and magnetic oscillations as an “innere Constant” (Hertz [1895] 312).
Hertz, “On the Fundamental Equations of Electrodynamics for Bodies at Rest”, Gottinger Nachr. (19 March 1890); in Wiedemann’s Annalen, 40 [1890] 577; Hertz [1962] 195–240.
Hertz , “On the Fundamental Equations”, in: Hertz [1962] 196–197.
See “Hertz’s experiments on Electromagnetic Waves”, Section 5 B in this book.
D’Agostino [1975] 295; Buchwald [1994] 197–198.
D’Agostino [1975] 291.
Hertz “On Electromagnetic Effects Produced by Electrical Disturbances in Insulators”,in: Hertz [1962] 95–106, 98, 105.
Hertz [1962] 288. Also, D’Agostino [1975,] 291.
Hoppe [1928] 612.
Hoppe [1928] 612.
Buchwald [1994] 193–199.
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D’Agostino, S. (2000). Hertz’s 1884 Theoretical Discovery of Electromagnetic Waves. 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_7
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