Die galvanische Kette, mathematisch bearbeitet

OHM, Georg Simon

Publication Date: 1827

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One folding engraved plate. iv, 245 pp. (lacking the errata leaf & leaf of ads). 8vo, cont. grey paste-paper boards (lower joint with short split at head & foot). Berlin: T.H. Riemann, 1827. First edition, and a splendid association copy, of this pioneering work which contains one of the most important discoveries in electrical science "Ohm s law" the basis of the present system of electrical measurement. Ohm discovered the unit of resistance in an electrical current. This copy belonged to the "Prince of Mathematicians" Carl Friedrich Gauss and has the "Gauss-Bibliothek" stamp on the title. It is quite exciting to be able to link two of the greatest 19th-century scientists through an important book like this. "In the field of electrical measurement Ohm was the great pioneer…Ohm s great contribution The Galvanic Chain Mathematically Calculated was to measure the rate of current flow and the effects of resistance on the current. Ohm s law that the resistance of a given conductor is a constant independent of the voltage applied or the current flowing was arrived at theoretically by analogy with Fourier s heat measurements (1800-14)." Printing & the Mind of Man 289. It is known that the publisher was forced to pulp most of the copies of this book due to lack of sales. A very fine and fresh copy. Lacking the errata leaf (it clearly was never bound-in) and, as usual, the leaf of ads. With the stamp of the Royal Observatory at Göttingen on free front endpaper (with release stamp facing on the front paste-down endpaper) and title. ? Dibner, Heralds of Science, 63. Horblit 81. Sparrow, Milestones of Science, 154. Wheeler Gift Cat. 835. Seller Inventory # 3373

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Title: Die galvanische Kette, mathematisch ...

Publication Date: 1827

Edition: 1st Edition