Aepinus's Essay on the Theory of Electricity and Magnetism / / Roderick Weir Home.

First published in St. Petersburg in 1759, F.U.T. Aepinus's Tenuimen theoriae electricilatis el magnetismi was one of the outstanding achievements of eighteenth-century physics. Its rigorous mathematical investigation of electricity and magnetism was an important and innovative departure from t...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1931-1979
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015]
©1979
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:Princeton Legacy Library ; 1528
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Physical Description:1 online resource (530 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ILLUSTRATIONS
  • PREFACE
  • ABBREVIATIONS
  • CHRONOLOGY
  • INTRODUCTION
  • CHAPTER ONE. Biographical Outline
  • CHAPTER TWO. The Electrical Background
  • CHAPTER THREE. Electricity in the Essay
  • CHAPTER FOUR. Magnetism
  • CHAPTER FIVE. A Place in History
  • AN ESSAY ON THE THEORY OF ELECTRICITY AND MAGNETISM BY F. U. T. AEPINUS
  • DEDICATION
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • CHAPTER I. General Principles of the Theory of Electricity and Magnetism
  • CHAPTER II. Concerning Electrical and Magnetic Attraction and Repulsion
  • CHAPTER III. Concerning the Communication of Electricity and Magnetism
  • CHAPTER IV. Concerning Certain Phenomena of Bodies Immersed in Electric and Magnetic Vortices, and Concerning the Magnetism of the Earth
  • APPENDIX: ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AEPINUS'S PUBLISHED WRITINGS
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY OF SECONDARY WORKS CITED
  • INDEX