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This is a case where reading the Wikipedia entry will round out one's impressions left from the article. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Ohm https://en.wiki
by samatman 5y ago
This is a case where reading the Wikipedia entry will round out one's impressions left from the article. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Ohm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Ohm
After publishing his monograph on the galvanic circuit, he did resign from his position at Bamburg: after which he took up positions at Nuremberg and finally Munich, as a professor of experimental physics.
Also, it's easy to criticize the critics with hindsight, but take a look at his acoustic law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohm%27s_acoustic_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohm%27s_acoustic_law which is at best an approximation.
It's easy to confidently think to ourselves, of course we would have accepted Ohm's law! But would we have rejected Ohm's acoustic law as well? What oracle gives us this amazing power?
- marcosdumay 5y ago> What oracle gives us this amazing power? Hum... Ideally, you could replicate his experiment and verify his findings. That doesn't mean his theory is correct, obviously, but you don't go destroying the career of scientists with valid empiric knowledge just because you disagree with their pick of one of the many theoretical explanations that fit it. Or, well, people do that, even today, but they shouldn't.