Andre K. T. Assis Publishes Five Volumes(!) of Translations of Wilhelm Weber's Electrodynamics
[Maxwell's] Treatise was undertaken with the intention of presenting a connected account of the entire known body of electric and magnetic phenomena from the single point of view of Faraday. Thus is contained little or no mention of the hypotheses put forward on the Continent in earlier years by Riemann, Weber, Kirchhoff, Helmholtz, and others. It is by no means clear that the complete abandonment of these older theories was fortunate for the later development of physics. Stratton, preface to Electromagnetic Theory (1941) In the 50 odd years between 1820 and 1873, the study of electrodynamics went from a wholly new discovery to a mature and practicable field of work. This sort of development is rare in science - a field born and rapidly developed within two generations. I think perhaps only quantum theory and maybe chemistry have any claim to comparison with the swiftness and significance of this kind of revolution. But the familiar achievements of Maxwell, Gauss, Tho...