Bibliographical history of electricity & magnetism, chronologically arranged
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY OF ELECTRICITY & MAGNETISM
St. Augustine. “ La Cité de Dieu. ”
from a manuscript in the Musée de Chantilly.
RESEARCHES INTO THE DOMAIN OF THE EARLY SCIENCES, ESPECIALLY FROM THE PERIOD OF THE REVIVAL OF SCHOLASTICISM, WITH BIOGRAPHICAL AND OTHER ACCOUNTS OF THE MOST DISTINGUISHED NATURAL PHILOSOPHERS THROUGHOUT THE MIDDLE AGES
COMPILED BY
PAUL FLEURY MOTTELAY, Ph.D.
AUTHOR OF “GILBERT OF COLCHESTER,” “THE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ELECTRO-CHEMISTRY,” ETC.
WITH INTRODUCTION BY THE LATE PROF. SILVANUS P. THOMPSON, D.Sc., F.R.S.
AND FOREWORD BY SIR R. T. GLAZEBROOK, K.C.B., D.Sc., F.R.S.
“Historia, quoquo modo scripta delectat.”— Pliny.
“Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas.”— Virgil.
“Il importe beaucoup de connaître l’histoire de la science à laquelle on s’attache.”— Éloge de Boerhaave.
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FOREWORD
PREFACE
INTRODUCTION
TABLE OF CONTENTS
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
Part I
Part II
The Mariner’s Compass
Book I
Book II
Book III
Book IV
Book V
Book VI
Aurora Borealis, or Northern Polar Light
Aurora Australis, or Southern Polar Light
Zodiacal Light
Bernoulli Family
“Of Electricity in General
Cassini Family
Electricity of the Atmosphere
Gmelin Family
APPENDIX I
APPENDIX II
APPENDIX III
Unabridged
Abridged
THE PHILOSOPHICAL MAGAZINE
LE JOURNAL DES SÇAVANS (SAVANTS)
APPENDIX IV
APPENDIX V
MERCATOR’S PROJECTION
INDEX
FOOTNOTES: