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The Source of Solar Energy, ca. 1840-1910: From Meteoric Hypothesis to Radioactive Speculations
Helge Kragh
Why does the Sun shine? Today we know the answer to the question and we also know that earlier answers were quite wrong. The problem of the source of solar energy became an importa…
physics.hist-ph2016★ 1 cited
Ludvig Lorenz, Electromagnetism, and the Theory of Telephone Currents
Helge Kragh
Ludvig V. Lorenz (1829-1891) was Denmark's first theoretical physicist and the only one whose work attracted international attention in the second half of the nineteenth century. T…