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AMPÈRE, André-Marie. Exposé méthodique des phénomènes électro-dynamiques, et des lois de ces phénomènes. Paris: Bachelier, 1823.
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AMPÈRE, André-Marie. Exposé méthodique des phénomènes électro-dynamiques, et des lois de ces phénomènes. Paris: Bachelier, 1823.
8o (216 x 141 mm). (A little very slight marginal browning). Original pink wrappers, uncut (some losses to spine).
FIRST EDITION. A scarce pamphlet in which Ampère comments that the disorderly nature of discoveries is not conducive to methodical exposition. The last leaf is a cancel incorporating "a new result" deduced by the author from a Mémoire published by Savary in the latest number of the Journal de Physique, illustrating Ampére's point. This important article appeared in Journal de Physique 95 (1822), Bulletin de la Société philomatique (November 1822), and Ampère's Recueil d'observations électromagnetiques of the same year, pp. 325-344. Offprints are known from these publications, as well as the present issue, believed to be later. The article gives a "consecutive account of electrodynamic phenomena beginning with the mutual repulsion of the elements of a rectilinear current" (Wheeler Gift). Norman 49; Wheeler Gift Catalogue 796.
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FIRST EDITION. A scarce pamphlet in which Ampère comments that the disorderly nature of discoveries is not conducive to methodical exposition. The last leaf is a cancel incorporating "a new result" deduced by the author from a Mémoire published by Savary in the latest number of the Journal de Physique, illustrating Ampére's point. This important article appeared in Journal de Physique 95 (1822), Bulletin de la Société philomatique (November 1822), and Ampère's Recueil d'observations électromagnetiques of the same year, pp. 325-344. Offprints are known from these publications, as well as the present issue, believed to be later. The article gives a "consecutive account of electrodynamic phenomena beginning with the mutual repulsion of the elements of a rectilinear current" (Wheeler Gift). Norman 49; Wheeler Gift Catalogue 796.