%0 Journal Article %1 Thomson1851Mathematical %A Thomson, William %D 1851 %I The Royal Society %J Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London %K 53a45-vector-and-tensor-analysis 78-01-optics-electromagnetic-theory-instructional-exposition 78a02-optics-electromagnetic-theory-foundations 78a25-electromagnetic-theory-general 78a30-electro-and-magnetostatics %P 243--268 %R 10.1098/rstl.1851.0012 %T A Mathematical Theory of Magnetism %U http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1851.0012 %V 141 %X Introduction. 1. The existence of magnetism is recognized by certain phenomena of force which are attributed to it as their cause. Other physical effects are found to be produced by the same agency; as in the operation of magnetism with reference to polarized light, recently discovered by Mr. F a r a d a y ; but we must still regard magnetic force as the characteristic of magnetism, and, however interesting such other phenomena may be in themselves, however essential a knowledge of them may be for enabling us to arrive at any satisfactory ideas regarding the physical nature of magnetism, and its connection with the general properties of matter, we must still consider the investigation of the laws, according to which the development and the action of magnetic force are regulated, to be the primary object of a Mathematical Theory in this branch of Natural Philosophy.

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