Afriat, Alexander (Author)
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics
Volume: 40
Pages: 20--25
It is argued that Weyl's theory of gravitation and electricity came out of `mathematical justice': out of the equal rights of direction and length. Such justice was manifestly at work in the context of discovery, and is enough to derive all of source-free electromagnetism. Weyl's repeated references to coordinates and gauge are taken to express equal treatment of direction and length.
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