Part of what the acceptance of Ohm’s Law demanded was a redefinition of both ‘current’ and ‘resistance’; if those terms had continued to mean what they had meant before, Ohm’s Law could not have been right; that is why it was so strenuously opposed as, say, the Joule-Lenz Law was not.
Thomas Kuhn in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Thomas Kuhn in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Is there something not-paywalled which describes what the relevant old definitions were?
I asked at SE : http://hsm.stackexchange.com/questions/5140/what-was-the-historical-definition-of-current-and-resistance/5150#5150
Thanks for doing that!