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THE suggestion by Dr. Drysdale, in NATURE of August 13, that by resorting to the experiments and equations of Ampère relating to the forces between current-carrying conductors, magnetism may be eliminated from fundamental physical concepts, reminds me that in the course of conversation with the late Sir Horace Lamb some years ago, he remarked that it would greatly simplify mathematical treatment if we could dispense with the duality of electricity and magnetism and concentrate on one of them, as Ampère appeared to have done. The hint was the more impressive because Sir Horace, in his “Hydrodynamics”, had set forth the vortex theory so convincingly.
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APPLEYARD, R. Fundamental Physical Structure. Nature 142, 537 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/142537a0
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