Conservative attitudes to old-established organs: Oliver Lodge and \textit{Philosophical Magazine}

DOI10.1098/RSNR.2015.0030MaRDI QIDQ2825616zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Imogen Clarke, James Mussell

Publication date 13 October 2016

Published in Notes and Records (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1098/rsnr.2015.0030

zbMATH Keywords

ether theoryOliver LodgePhilosophical Magazine

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) History of mathematics at institutions and academies (non-university) (01A74)

Review text

Following its founding in 1798, the British monthly `Philosophical Magazine' evolved from a general scientific digest into a journal concentrating on original research in mathematics and physics. Contributors included Kelvin, Rutherford, and Niels Bohr, but the `Magazine' increasingly found itself in a backwater position, compared to journals of the Royal Society and the Physical Society. This article focuses on Oliver Lodge's decades on the editorial board, commencing in 1911, and relates the non-mainstream tendencies of the `Magazine' to those of Lodge's own physics.

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