Um exemplo,
onde Sommerfeld ressalta a dificuldade, naqueles tempos pioneiros,
de entender a teoria de Maxwell:
The great student of electrolysis, Wilhelm Hittorp, who had heard much
of the new theory of electricity, in advanced years attempted to study
the Treatise[2], but was unable to find his way through the
unfamiliar mass of equations and concepts. He was thus led into
a state of deep depresssion. His colleagues in Munster persuaded
him to take a vacation trip to the Hartz Mountains. However when just
before his departure they checked his luggage they found in it-
the two volumes of the Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism, by
James Clerk Maxwell
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