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Philosophical concept

Ether and field

Ether and field name two historical ways of thinking about the medium and propagation of physical phenomena.

Works
289
Passages
15,943
Thinkers
47
Traditions
17

Understand uses of the concept

Ether and field name two historical ways of thinking about the medium and propagation of physical phenomena.

In the current corpus, this annotation connects 15,943 passages across 289 works, including Abraham Lincoln Papers: Lincoln-Authored Documents, Abraham Lincoln Papers: Incoming and Contextual Documents, Eudemian Ethics. These links provide inspectable points of comparison; they do not assume that every author uses the concept in the same sense.

Lexical variants: éther, ether, Äther, field theory

Related traditions

Works where the concept is identified

  1. Abraham Lincoln Papers: Lincoln-Authored DocumentsAbraham Lincoln · 0 passages
  2. Abraham Lincoln Papers: Incoming and Contextual DocumentsCorrespondents and archival record · 0 passages
  3. Eudemian EthicsAristotle · 32 passages
  4. MetaphysicsAristotle · 92 passages
  5. Nicomachean EthicsAristotle · 80 passages
  6. PoeticsAristotle · 11 passages
  7. PoliticsAristotle · 120 passages
  8. RhetoricAristotle · 114 passages
  9. Aṅguttara Nikāya: Numerical DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
  10. Dhammapada: Verses on the DhammaSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
  11. Dīgha Nikāya: Collection of Long DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 33 passages
  12. Majjhima Nikāya: Collection of Middle-Length DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
  13. Saṃyutta Nikāya: Connected DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
  14. Sutta Nipāta: Early Collection of Discourses in VerseSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
  15. Ancient testimonia on CarneadesCarneades · 35 passages
  16. SVF II: Chrysippus on Logic and PhysicsChrysippus · 0 passages
  17. AcademicaCicero · 0 passages
  18. Brutus, or On Eminent OratorsCicero · 0 passages
  19. Catilinarian OrationsCicero · 0 passages
  20. Letters to AtticusCicero · 0 passages
  21. Letters to FriendsCicero · 0 passages
  22. Letters to QuintusCicero · 0 passages
  23. Lucullus, Book Two of the AcademicaCicero · 0 passages
  24. On DivinationCicero · 0 passages
  25. On DutiesCicero · 0 passages
  26. On FriendshipCicero · 34 passages
  27. On Old AgeCicero · 0 passages
  28. On the Nature of the GodsCicero · 0 passages
  29. PhilippicsCicero · 0 passages
  30. Tusculan DisputationsCicero · 0 passages