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Versuch einer Theorie der electrischen und optischen Erscheinungen in bewegten Körpern.
Leiden, Brill, 1895. - (22,5 x 15 cm). (4) 138 (1) S. Leinwandband der Zeit.
Erste Ausgabe der klassischen Arbeit zur Elektronentheorie. Lorentz gibt hier als Erster eine Antwort auf die durch den Versuch von Michelson-Morley ausgelöste Krise der Physik. Die sogenannte Lorentz-Kontraktion bildet die Grundlage für Einsteins spezielle Relativitätstheorie. - "In applying Maxwell's electromagnetic theories... to moving bodies, Lorentz made the fundamentally new assumption that the behaviour of light and matter could be understood in terms of charged particles. The present work is the second of Lorentz's two major expositions on his electron theory of matter... it contains his equation for the 'Lorentz force' connecting the continuous electric field with discrete electricity, and investigates the problem of the earth's motion through the stationary, immaterial luminiferous ether postulated in classical physics... However, the Michelson-Morley interferometer experiment of 1887... had failed to produce evidence of any ether wind effects, a problem to which Lorentz responded with his famous contraction hypothesis, stating that all electrical particles become shortened in the direction of the earth's motion through the ether. The exact form of this hypothesis appears in the present work" (Norman). "In 1905 Einstein propounded a special, limited theory of relativity with the express purpose of clarifying the aberration problem, to which end he adopted Lorentz's theory" (PMM). - Vorsätze minimal stockfleckig. Kapitale bestoßen, sonst sauber und wohlerhalten. - DSB 8, 487; PMM 378b; Norman 1388; vgl. Darmstaedter 812.
Versuch einer Theorie der electrischen und optischen Erscheinungen in bewegten Körpern.
Leiden, Brill, 1895. - (22,5 x 15 cm). (4) 138 (1) S. Leinwandband der Zeit.
Erste Ausgabe der klassischen Arbeit zur Elektronentheorie. Lorentz gibt hier als Erster eine Antwort auf die durch den Versuch von Michelson-Morley ausgelöste Krise der Physik. Die sogenannte Lorentz-Kontraktion bildet die Grundlage für Einsteins spezielle Relativitätstheorie. - "In applying Maxwell's electromagnetic theories... to moving bodies, Lorentz made the fundamentally new assumption that the behaviour of light and matter could be understood in terms of charged particles. The present work is the second of Lorentz's two major expositions on his electron theory of matter... it contains his equation for the 'Lorentz force' connecting the continuous electric field with discrete electricity, and investigates the problem of the earth's motion through the stationary, immaterial luminiferous ether postulated in classical physics... However, the Michelson-Morley interferometer experiment of 1887... had failed to produce evidence of any ether wind effects, a problem to which Lorentz responded with his famous contraction hypothesis, stating that all electrical particles become shortened in the direction of the earth's motion through the ether. The exact form of this hypothesis appears in the present work" (Norman). "In 1905 Einstein propounded a special, limited theory of relativity with the express purpose of clarifying the aberration problem, to which end he adopted Lorentz's theory" (PMM). - Vorsätze minimal stockfleckig. Kapitale bestoßen, sonst sauber und wohlerhalten. - DSB 8, 487; PMM 378b; Norman 1388; vgl. Darmstaedter 812.
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