Table of Contents: “... Stage -- 2.1. Renormalization: The Disappearance and Reappearance of an Idea -- 2.2. J. J. Thompson: The Aether as Fluid and the Electromagnetic Mass -- 2.3. Lorentz: His Aether, Electron, and Program -- 2.4. Kramers: The Unexpected End of the First Phase...”

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