In this authoritative biography, James Hofmann examines the extraordinary life of André-Marie Ampère, who made original, significant contributions to mathematics and chemistry and is renowned for his new branch of physics - electrodynamics. A member of the Académie des Sciences, and professor at the École Polytechnique, his accomplishments are remarkable in view of his tragic personal life. One of the elite of early nineteenth-century Parisian science, yet having no formal education, he embraced the scientific optimism of the Enlightenment, and the Catholic faith. This combination of intellectual expectation and emotional spirituality made Ampère's genius both destructive and extraordinarily creative. This, the only biography available in the English language, illuminates the scientific contributions of an individual and his epoch, and provides a fascinating insight into the workings of the scientific mind.
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'... a thorough and scholarly biography.' David Cahan, Nature
'André-Marie Ampère: Englightenment and Electrodynamics gives an accessible and readable account of Ampère's work and its context in which Hofmann's great enthusiasm for his subject is clearly communicated ... the book is to be warmly welcomed.' C. L. Dowland-Pillinger, Ambix
'André-Marie Ampère: Englightenment and Electrodynamics gives an accessible and readable account of Ampère's work and its context in which Hofmann's great enthusiasm for his subject is clearly communicated ... the book is to be warmly welcomed.' C. L. Dowland-Pillinger, Ambix
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Renowned for his new branch of physics - electrodynamics - and his original and significant contributions to mathematics and chemistry. With no formal education, he embraced the optimism of the Enlightenment, and Catholicism. This, his only English biography, illuminates his contributions, epoch, and creative genius.
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In the earliest extensive biographical study of Ampere, Louis de Launay traced Ampere's paternal lineage back five generations to the middle of the seventeenth century. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
marriage and provincial life, phenomenological force law, electric fluid particles, collinear current elements, magnetic fluid particles, menological laws, electrodynamic force law, mobile conductor, macroscopic phenomenological law, equilibrium demonstrations, deux courans électriques, indirect synthesis, rotary effects, ether mechanics, exposé méthodique, equilibrium apparatus, electrodynamic forces, molecular currents, vitesses virtuelles, electrodynamic phenomena, magnetic molecule, molecular hypothesis, chemical atomism, fait primitif, magnetism theories Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
École Polytechnique, Maine de Biran, Annales de Chimie, Collège de France, École Centrale, Académie des Sciences, Jean-Jacques Ampère, École Normale, First Class of the Institut, Madame Ampère, Madame Récamier, Georges Cuvier, Jenny Potot, Old Regime, Félix Savary, Jean-Baptiste Biot, Lyon Lycée, Madame Carron, Philosophie des Sciences, Académie de Lyon, Albert van Beek, École des Ponts, December Ampère, Jean-Marie Périsse, October Ampère New!
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In the earliest extensive biographical study of Ampere, Louis de Launay traced Ampere's paternal lineage back five generations to the middle of the seventeenth century. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
marriage and provincial life, phenomenological force law, electric fluid particles, collinear current elements, magnetic fluid particles, menological laws, electrodynamic force law, mobile conductor, macroscopic phenomenological law, equilibrium demonstrations, deux courans électriques, indirect synthesis, rotary effects, ether mechanics, exposé méthodique, equilibrium apparatus, electrodynamic forces, molecular currents, vitesses virtuelles, electrodynamic phenomena, magnetic molecule, molecular hypothesis, chemical atomism, fait primitif, magnetism theories Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
École Polytechnique, Maine de Biran, Annales de Chimie, Collège de France, École Centrale, Académie des Sciences, Jean-Jacques Ampère, École Normale, First Class of the Institut, Madame Ampère, Madame Récamier, Georges Cuvier, Jenny Potot, Old Regime, Félix Savary, Jean-Baptiste Biot, Lyon Lycée, Madame Carron, Philosophie des Sciences, Académie de Lyon, Albert van Beek, École des Ponts, December Ampère, Jean-Marie Périsse, October Ampère New!
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- Elements of Chemistry (Dover Books on Chemistry) by Antoine Lavoisier on page 190, and Back Matter
- Critique of Pure Reason (The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant) by Immanuel Kant on page 146, and page 147
- Scrutinizing Science: Empirical Studies of Scientific Change by Professor Arthur Donovan in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Scientific Reinterpretation of Form (Cornell History of Science Series) by Norma E. Emerton in Back Matter
- Discovery of the Elements by Mary Elvira Weeks in Back Matter
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- An Introduction to Classical Electromagnetic Radiation by Glenn S. Smith in Back Matter
- Pierre-Simon Laplace, 1749-1827 by Charles Coulston Gillispie in Back Matter
- The Cambridge History of Science, Volume 5: The Modern Physical and Mathematical Sciences by Mary Jo Nye on page 312
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