Re: Late 17th-century physics question
- From: Front Office <YoMo.nospam@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 16:41:42 +0000
josefmatz wrote:
Newton was also inventor of differential analysis.In those days there was no
mathematical tools for electromagnetism.
Some effects were known only but no electromagnetic theory which came much
later.So anyway they had no theory.
Josef Matz
"Front Office" <YoMo.nospam@xxxxxxxxx> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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Isaac Newton's Universal Gravitation was maligned during his life
as "invoking occult agencies" because of its force-at-a-distance
aspect.
In those days, force was considered to be conveyed ONLY by
actual physical contact between material bodies.
Does anyone know how the forces associated with magnetism
and electricity were explained in those days?
Thanks for any insight into this matter.
Bob
armistead_rap[AT]bigfoot.com
There must have been a theory or explanation, one equivalent to
the earlier dominant theory of gravity, namely that of Descartes
which postulated vortexes of invisible matter circling the sun and
guiding the planets in their orbits.
Descartes used no calculus to derive that idea or theory.
Was there anything equivalent for the electric and magnetic forces
in those days, to explain their force-at-a-distance aspects?
Bob
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