Paris: Crochard, 1822 [i.e., 1823]. A beautiful copy bound in contemporary red morocco of the definitive version of this continually evolving collection of important memoirs on electrodynamics by Ampère (1775-1836) and others over the period 1820-1823, beginning with his ‘Premier Mémoire’, the “first great memoir on electrodynamics” (DSB). “Ampère had..... More
Item #4768
London: Richard Taylor and William Francis, 1852. First edition, journal issue, of these two papers containing Faraday’s detailed investigations of the nature of the ‘lines of force’ he had proposed in his first paper on electromagnetism, ‘On some new electro-magnetical motions, and on the theory of magnetism’, originally published in..... More
Item #4416
London: Richard Taylor, 1831. First edition, very rare offprint, inscribed by Faraday to his friend and fellow electrical researcher William Snow Harris, of one of Faraday’s most important papers: his experiments with sound vibrations that facilitated his revolutionary discovery of the production of electricity by electromagnetic induction. “In February 1831..... More
Item #5298
London: W. Nicol, 1826. First edition, very rare separately-paginated offprint, inscribed by Faraday to his friend and fellow electrical researcher William Snow Harris. This early chemical paper of Faraday contends that, while every substance is normally surrounded by a vapour of the same substance, and that the pressure of this..... More
Item #5299