Electricity and magnetism
Subtitle: a historical perspective
By: Brian Baigrie
Series: Greenwood guides to great ideas in science; Greenwood guides to great ideas in science
Publisher: Greenwood Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Westport, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 165
ISBN-13: 9780313042980
Subjects: Electricity; History; Magnetism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [153]-158) and index.

Electronic reproduction. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2007. Available via the World Wide Web. Access is limited to subscribers of ebooks.greenwood.com.
Table of contents: title: Early investigations; title: The emergence of systematic theory; title: Electrical conduction; title: Electrostatic phenomena; title: From effluvia to fluids; title: The science of galvanism; title: Postscript : founding of the Royal Institution (1799); title: The current and the needle; title: Forces and fields; title: The science of electromagnetism; title: Electromagnetic waves; title: Charged particles of matter; title: The atom and the new physics of the twentieth century.