Electricity and magnetism : a historical perspective / Brian Baigrie.

Author: Baigrie, Brian S. (Brian Scott)

Imprint:Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2007.

Descriptionxiii, 165 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.

Note:Early investigations. - The Emergence of systematic theory. - Electrical conduction. - Electrostatic phenomena. - From effluvia to fluids. - The Science of galvanism. - Postscript: founding of the Royal Institution (1799). - The Current and the needle. - Forces and fields. - The science of electromagnetism. - Electromagnetic waves. - Charged particles of matter. - The Atom and the new physics of the twentieth century.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. [153]-158) and index.

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