Electronic Resource
Cambridge
:
Cambridge University Press
The @British journal for the history of science
5 (1971), S. 235-257
ISSN:
0007-0874
Source:
Cambridge Journals Digital Archives
Topics:
History
,
Natural Sciences in General
Notes:
In recent years a number of scholars have argued that Faraday's theories of matter and force were founded on concepts which were derived from Boscovich's Theoria Philosophiae Naturalis (1758). The notion that Faraday's ideas display Boscovichean tendencies is not a new one: it was proposed by several of Faraday's immediate successors and has been noted by more recent commentators. Statements of this kind are not implausible as assertions of a general correspondence between Faraday's views on matter, as expressed in the “Speculation touching Electric Conduction and the Nature of Matter” of 1844, and Boscovich's theory of point atomism, but Professor L. Pearce Williams has made much stronger claims for the dependence of Faraday's ideas on Boscovich's theory of matter. Williams' interpretation has been questioned by recent scholarship, and in this paper I wish to advance an alternative interpretation of Faraday's ideas on electricity and the nature of matter.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0007087400011213
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