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Electricity and magnetism : a historical perspective / Brian Baigrie.
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Baigrie, Brian S. (Brian Scott)
- Series:
- Greenwood guides to great ideas in science
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Electricity--History.
- Electricity.
- History.
- Magnesium--History.
- Magnesium.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 165 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2007.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [153]-158) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0313333580
- 9780313333583
- OCLC:
- 71164020
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