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Title: Ludvig Lorenz (1867) on Light and Electricity

Authors: Helge Kragh
Abstract: Independent of Maxwell, in 1867 the Danish physicist L. V. Lorenz proposed a theory in which he identified light with electrical oscillations propagating in a very poor conductor. Lorenz's electrodynamic theory of light, which formally was equivalent to Maxwell's theory but physically quite different from it, was published in well-known journals in German and English but soon fell into oblivion. In 1867 Lorenz also published a paper on his new theory in a semi-popular Danish journal which has generally been overlooked. This other paper is here translated into English and provided with the necessary annotations.
Comments: 8 pages
Subjects: History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph)
Cite as: arXiv:1803.06371 [physics.hist-ph]
  (or arXiv:1803.06371v1 [physics.hist-ph] for this version)

Submission history

From: Helge Kragh [view email]
[v1] Fri, 16 Mar 2018 19:02:40 GMT (571kb)