Making sense of absolute measurement: James Clerk Maxwell, William Thomson, Fleeming Jenkin, and the invention of the dimensional formula

DOI10.1016/j.shpsb.2016.08.004zbMath1364.78006OpenAlexW2592417205MaRDI QIDQ2358040

Daniel Jon Mitchell

Publication date: 20 June 2017

Published in: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. Part B. Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsb.2016.08.004

zbMATH Keywords

unitsdimensionsabsolute measurementJames Clerk Maxwellelectricity and magnetismtelegraph engineering

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55) History of optics and electromagnetic theory (78-03) Physics (00A79) Foundations in optics and electromagnetic theory (78A02)

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Cites Work

• The origin of dimensional analysis
• ‘Mechanical philosophy’ and the emergence of physics in Britain: 1800–1850
• Qualitative vs quantitative conceptions of homogeneity in nineteenth century dimensional analysis
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