Item 11.2 - H. R. Hertz: Über die Ausbreitungsgeschwindigkeit der Elektrodynamischen Wirkungen

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H. R. Hertz: Über die Ausbreitungsgeschwindigkeit der Elektrodynamischen Wirkungen

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  • 1888 (Creation)

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1 vol., c 338 x 224 x 6 mm. 20 pp, (with 3 flyleaves at beginning and end, 1 original and 2 from binding). 2 ff. tipped in between pp. 6-7, 1 f. tipped in between pp. 10-11, 1 f. pasted over top of p. 17.

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(1857-1894)

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Gift from Elisabeth Hertz, Hertz's widow, in Dec. 1936. Presumably bound subsequently: stamp of 'Cox & Allen, Camb.' on inside front cover.

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In Hertz's own hand. 'III' written in blue crayon on front original flyleaf. Hertz's address given in the margin of the first page of the paper: 'Prof. Dr. Hertz, Wadstr. 33, Karlsruhe'. Several annotations and corrections throughout the text of the paper, including to the title. First subtitle crossed out, another below in brackets: 'Aus den Sitzungsberichten der Berliner Akadamie vom 2 Feb. 1888, mit einigen Zusätzen' [as appeared in the paper's second publication in Annalen der Physik und Chemie vol. 34].

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    Published as Hertz, H. R. (1888) ‘Über die Ausbreitungsgeschwindigkeit der elektrodynamischen Wirkungen’ [On the finite velocity of propagation of electromagnetic actions], Sitzungsberichte der Königlich Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, VI. VII. 10 February 1888, ‘Über die Ausbreitungsgeschwindigkeit der elektrodynamischen Wirkungen’ [On the finite velocity of propagation of electromagnetic actions], pp. 197-210 in: Sitzungsberichte der Königlich Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, VI. VII. 10 February 1888. A revised version with the same title then appeared later that year in Annalen der Physik und Chemie vol. 34 (new series), pp. 551-569.

    An approved English translation by Daniel Evan Jones appeared as 'On the finite velocity of propagation of electromagnetic actions' in Hertz, H. R., Jones, D. E. (1893), Electric waves; being researches on the propagation of electric action with finite velocity through space.

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