"In England... [Weber genre theories] were vigorously condemned. Thomson and Tate, T and T'... anathematized them as a…"

"The aim of the earlier thinkers, to reduce the whole of electrical science to one equation was now to be realized in …"

"[A]t a single stroke of the wand... the whole domain of light and heat was annexed to electricity. It interpreted the…"

"Maxwell's best friends were apprehensive, since the theory predicted even more than was believed to exist, until in 1…"

"Hydrodynamics... profited and such beautiful researches as those of the Bjerknes (1863 et. seq.) father and son, were…"

"It was inevitable... that in the further treatment of Maxwell's equation the use of vector methods of computation sho…"

"The ether electrically ignored heretofore has become all embracing. Woe to him that lisps, action at a distance!"

"Maxwell indeed, following the established custom, endeavored to call dynamics to his aid; but... mechanics had no cou…"

"Naturally the theory so revolutionary gained headway but slowly... unfortunately Kelvin, and (I believe) Rayleigh lon…"

"When I began my work... in 1876 the theory of Weber "Das electrodynamische Grundgesetz" of 1846, was rife in... conti…"