Velocity of transverse undulations in our hypothetical medium, calculated from the electromagnetic experiments of 'MM'. Kohlrausch and Weber, agrees … - James Clerk Maxwell

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Velocity of transverse undulations in our hypothetical medium, calculated from the electromagnetic experiments of 'MM'. Kohlrausch and Weber, agrees so exactly with the velocity of light calculated from the optical experiments of M. Fizeau, that we can scarcely avoid the conclusion that light consists in the transverse undulations of the same medium which is the cause of electric and magnetic phenomena.

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About James Clerk Maxwell

(13 June 1831 – 5 November 1879) was a Scottish mathematical physicist, who formulated the classical theory of , bringing together for the first time electricity, magnetism, and light as manifestations of the same phenomenon.

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