“Mémoire … De l’Action mutuelle de deux courans électriques”

by AndrÉ Marie AmpÈRe

$3,300 · Offered by Manhattan Rare Books

“Ampère, professor of mathematics at the Polytechnique, heard of Oersted’s discovery and immediately set up a series of experiments to determine the exact relationships of current-flow and magnetism. In a week Ampère presented the first of a series of papers establishing the laws of forces acting between conductors carrying currents.” – Bern Dibner, Heralds of Science, 62 THE ORIGINS OF ELECTROMAGNETISM. AMPÈRE’S

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