Special Relativity
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This article, from the Illuminations-reviewed History of Mathematics Archive, discusses how Sir Isaac Newton's 17th-century laws of physics went unchallenged until the 19th century, when electric and magnetic phenomena were studied theoretically. Information covered includes knowledge about electromagnetic fields, the study of light, and experiments leading to the development of Einstein's theory of special relativity.
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