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From: Frances <frances.turcoLASEMESTE@tin.it>
Subject: Re: hysteresis
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> From the Enc. Brit. I got the following quotation:
> Ewing, Sir (James) Alfred
>
> (b. March 27, 1855, Dundee, Angus, Scot.--d. Jan. 7, 1935, Cambridge,
> Cambridgeshire, Eng.), British physicist who discovered and named
> hysteresis, the resistance of magnetic materials to change in magnetic
> force.
> My question is: why called Sir (James) Alfred Ewing this effect
> 'hysteresis', a word derived from the Greek word for 'uterus'. Or is there
> another Greek word meaning something else?
This has always puzzled me as well, but I've never get to a reasonable
answer. I suggest that you post this same message to it.cultura.classica (I
am pretty sure paople there will reply even if the post is in Enlish):
there are some threads carried on about similar subjects, there, so...
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Frances
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