Bibliographical history of electricity & magnetism, chronologically arranged
History
Bibliographical history of electricity & magnetism, chronologically arranged
Electricity -- History; Electricity -- History -- Bibliography; Magnetism -- History; Magnetism -- History -- Bibliography; Science, Medieval
See likewise the “Pharsalia” of Marcus Annæus Lucanus,
translated by J. Krais, I. pp. 518–527; Plutarchus, “De facie in
orbe lunæ,” cap. 26; the “Annals” of Caius Cornelius Tacitus,
Germania, XLV. 1st ed., Venice, 1470; “Das Polarlicht,” H.
Fritz, Leipzig, 1881, pp. 4–6, 332; Mairan’s “Traité Physique,”
etc., 1731, pp. 179–181; Grégoire du Tour, _Lumière Electrique_,
1882, Vol. VII. p. 389; Elias Loomis, “The Aurora Borealis,”
etc., p. 220 of the Reports of Smiths. Inst., 1865; A. M. Mayer,
“Observations,” etc., _Amer. Jour. of Sc._, February 1871; “A
copy of the Catalogue of Aurorae Boreales observed in Norway
from the earliest times to June 1878” (“Nature,” December
4, 1902, p. 112); “La cause de l’aurore boréale,” Claudius
Arrhenius, in the _Revue Générale des Sciences_ for January 30,
1902, pp. 65–76; “Les Années Météores,” in “Le Cosmos,” Paris,
May 25, 1889, etc.; “Terrestrial Magnetism,” March 1898, p.
7 for Chronological Summary of Authors re Aurora; Rev. Jas.
Farquharson in “Abstracts of Sc. Papers Roy. Soc.,” Vol. II.
p. 391; Wm. Dobbie, _Phil. Mag._, Vol. LXI for 1823, p. 252;
W. Derham, for description of Auroras (in _Phil. Trans._ for
1728, p. 453); see, for Boscovitch, “Journal des Savants,”
February 1864; “Journal des Savants,” for August 1820; C.
H. Wilkinson, “Elements,” 1804; Vol. II. p. 279 and note;
Calogera’s “Raccolta,” XVII. 47, _Proc. of the Royal Soc. of
Edinburgh_ for the observations of J. A. Brown and others on
the aurora; F. C. Meyer, De luce boreali, 1726; Poggendorff, I.
135; Sturgeon, “Sc. Res.” 4th Sec. p. 489; _Phil. Trans._, Vol.
XXXVIII. p. 243; Vol. XLVI. p. 499; F. Zöllner’s paper in “L.
E. and D. Philos. Mag.,” for May and July, 1872; C. A. Young,
_Amer. Jour. of Sc_., Vol. III., 3rd s., p. 69; Baron Karl Von
Reichenbach’s “Physico-Physiological Researches,” trans. of Dr.
John Ashburner, London, 1851, pp. 5–36, also pp. 445, etc.,
of the translation of Dr. W. Gregory, London, 1850; J. H. Van
Swinden, “Recueil de Mémoires,” etc., La Haye, 1784, Vol. III.
p. 187, etc.; J. E. B. Wiedeburg, “Beobachtungen und Muth.,”
etc., 1771; G. W. Krafft, “Observ. Meteor,” etc., in _Novi Com.
Acad. Petrop._, Vol. V. p. 400; Giuseppe Toaldo, “Descrizione,”
etc., in _Saggi ... Accad. di Padova_, Vol. I. p. 178; Louis
Cotte, “Table of Auroræ, Observed ... 1768–1779,” Paris, 1783;
_Journal de Physique_ for 1775; _Recueil de Mem. de l’Acad. des
Sciences_ for 1769; A. S. Conti, “Rifflessioni sull’ Aurora
Boreale.”[48]
For _Auguste Arthur De la Rive_, consult “Bibl. Britan.,” Vol.
XVI, N.S., 1821, p. 201, likewise the “Annales de Chimie et de
Physique,” _Phil. Mag._, _Phil. Trans._, _Comptes Rendus_, more
especially, as well as the “Bibl. Univ.” and the “Mem. de la
Soc. de Genève,” at which latter place he was born in 1801.
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