André-Marie AMPÈRE
Mémoires sur l'action mutuelle de deux courants électriques, sur celle qui existe entre un courant électrique et un aimant ou le globe terrestre, et celle de deux aimants [aimans] l'un sur l'autre
[Memoirs on the Mutual Action of Two Electric Currents]
S.n. (Académie royale des sciences)|s. l. (Paris) [Paris] s. d. [1820]|14 x 21.50 cm|broché
First edition printed in small numbers of this offprint from the Annales de chimie et de physique.
Illustrated with 5 folding plates at rear. As issued in its rare original beige paper covers with some tears to the corners and spine.
An extremely rare copy of Ampère's first dissertation on electrodynamics, presenting his first reflections on the equivalence between magnets and currents.
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