Timeline for Who was the first to use the term field in physics?
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| Oct 26, 2017 at 0:45 | comment | added | Francois Ziegler | D’Alembert drew stream lines (1752, fig. 13); Poisson’s lignes d'aimantation (1826, p. 269) also seem to predate Faraday’s magnetic lines (1830s). | |
| Oct 25, 2017 at 20:18 | comment | added | Francois Ziegler | About Euler, see the paper linked at hsm.stackexchange.com/questions/2063/… — especially §§VIII, IX. He clearly has the thing (both scalar and vector fields), but not yet the term (champ). | |
| Oct 25, 2017 at 16:32 | history | asked | Diracology | CC BY-SA 3.0 |