Author: Aepinus, Franz Ulrich Theodor
Title: Aepinus's Essay on the Theory of Electricity and Magnetism
Description: Princeton, Princeton University Press, (1979). orig.cloth, dustwrapper.. 24x16cm, xiv, 514 pp, Introductory Monograph & Notes by R.W. Hone. Translation by P.J. Connor.. Textual diagrams. Minor rubbing, VG, in a somewhat rubbed & soiled dustwrapper. ¶ Contents: Introduction: Biographical Outline; The Electrical Backround; Electricity in the 'Essay'; Magnetism; A Place in History; An Essay on the Theory of Electricity & Magnetism by F.U.T. Aepinus: General Principles of the Theory of Electricity & Magnetism; Concerning Electrical & Magnetic Attraction & Repulsion; Concerning the Communication of Electricity & Magnetism; Concerning Certain Phenomena of Bodies Immersed in Electric & Magnetic Vortices, and Concerning the Magnetism of the Earth; Dissertation I: An Explanation of a Certain Phenomenon of the Leyden Jar Discovered by the Celebrated Richmann; Dissertation II: An Explanation of a Certain Paradoxical Magnetic Phenomenon; Appendix: Annotated Bibliography of Aepinus's Published Writings.

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