Timeline for History of right hand rule
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| Oct 28, 2023 at 23:04 | history | edited | Daniel Asimov | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 30, 2023 at 17:23 | comment | added | Francois Ziegler | Ampère’s antecedent, mentioned in my first comment above, is known as his little guy rule (règle du bonhomme d’Ampère). He first stated it in Annales de chimie et de physique 15 (1820), page 67; here is a translation (mid-page) with a picture from his manuscripts. | |
| Sep 30, 2023 at 7:12 | vote | accept | Sofia Tirabassi | ||
| Sep 29, 2023 at 16:09 | comment | added | Kevin Casto | @LSpice Oh I still meant with your hand, like this: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Right-hand_grip_rule.svg | |
| Sep 29, 2023 at 14:30 | comment | added | LSpice | @KevinCasto, re, there are those, like me, who are so poor at abstract visualisation that I would not count on being able to visualise a turning screw if I didn't have one in my hand; but I always have my fingers. (Well, so far.) | |
| Sep 29, 2023 at 10:56 | comment | added | Kevin Casto | The "corkscrew rule" is what I remember learning in physics class as the right-hand rule (e.g. see the picture here: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-hand_rule#Rotations ) The version involving the fingers always seemed much harder to remember because of how arbitrary the finger order seemed. | |
| Sep 29, 2023 at 9:00 | comment | added | Carlo Beenakker | thanks for the references; what I read in Pritchard is the corkscrew rule: "Lay hold of one of these and turn screw wise and you rotate +." This is also mentioned in the Society statement "No arguments in favour of the opposite system being given, the handed system, symbolised by a corkscrew or the tendril of the vine was adopted by the Society." Is there a source where Maxwell refers to the three fingers of the right hand to set the orientation of the axes? [In my education at a Dutch University I actually only learned of the corkscrew rule, "kurketrekker regel".] | |
| Sep 29, 2023 at 2:49 | comment | added | Ryan Budney | I would have imagined it went back considerably further, to at least Faraday, i.e. before Hamilton. | |
| Sep 29, 2023 at 1:53 | comment | added | Francois Ziegler | Insofar as vector products are concerned, this must be the correct answer (no one even debated their definition before Hamilton, Tait and Maxwell). Yet Wikipedia traces the history even further to Ampère (without a precise reference, but one might perhaps trace one from T. B. Greenslade, Ancestors of the right‐hand rule). | |
| Sep 29, 2023 at 0:33 | history | edited | wmora2 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 28, 2023 at 22:12 | history | edited | LSpice | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 28, 2023 at 21:42 | comment | added | wmora2 | Hi, I already edited the post with the reference. | |
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| S Sep 28, 2023 at 21:40 | history | edited | wmora2 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 28, 2023 at 21:32 | comment | added | Carlo Beenakker | interesting, do you have a source? Maxwell's 1871 communication where he introduces the curl does not mention the right-hand-rule clerkmaxwellfoundation.org/… | |
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| S Sep 28, 2023 at 19:46 | history | answered | wmora2 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
