Download or read book A History of the Theories of Aether and Electricity written by Sir Edmund Whittaker and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 785 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accessible treatment offers highly detailed accounts concerning development of ideas and theories about the nature of electricity and space (aether), focusing on period from Descartes to Lorentz, Einstein, and Minkowski. 1960 edition.