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Cavendish,
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Michell discovers the law of magnetic force,
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The two-fluid theory: Coulomb,
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Limited mobility of the magnetic fluids,
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Poisson's mathematical theory of electrostatics,
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The equivalent surface- and volume-distributions of magnetism: Poisson's theory of magnetic induction,
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Green's Nottingham memoir,
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CHAPTER III.
Galvanism, from Galvani to Ohm.
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Sulzer's discovery,
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Galvanic phenomena,
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Rival hypotheses regarding the galvanic fluid,
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The voltaic pile,
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Nicholson and Carlisle decompose water voltaically,
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Davy's chemical theory of the pile,
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Grothuss' chain,
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De La Rive's hypothesis,
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Berzelius' scheme of electro-chemistry,
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Early attempts to discover a connexion between electricity and magnetism,
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Oersted's experiment: his explanation of it,
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The law of Biot and Savart,
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The researches of Ampère on electrodynamics,
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Seebeck's phenomenon,
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Davy's researches on conducting power,
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Ohm's theory: electroscopic force,
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CHAPTER IV.
The Luminiferous Medium, from Bradley to Fresnel.
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Bradley discovers aberration,
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John Bernoulli's model of the aether,
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Maupertuis and the principle of least action,
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Views of Euler, Courtivron, Melvill,
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Young defends the undulatory theory, and explains the colours of thin plates,
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Laplace supplies a corpuscular theory of double refraction,
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