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Who postulated the first Lagrangian for electrodynamics?

In his book on Electrodynamics (Lectures on Theoretical Physics, Vol. 3), Chapter 32-E, Arnold Sommerfeld talks about "Schwarzschild's principle of least action", developed by K. ...
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Who postulated the first Lagrangian for electrodynamics?

Various versions of electromagnetic Lagrangian were "postulated" by elastic aether theorists before Maxwell, see Whittaker, History of the theories of aether and electricity. Green appears ...
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