The Galvanic Circuit Investigated Mathematically (1891) - Tapa dura

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Oui P9 (V EDITORS PREFACE. A SUFFICIENT reason for republishing anE nglish translation o{ the wonderful book of Professor O. S. Ohm is the difficulty with which the only previous translation (that ofT aylor sS cientific Memoirs) is procurable. Besides this, however, the intrinsic value of the book is so great, that it should be read by all electricians who care for more than superficial knowledge. It is most remarkable to note at this time, how completely Ohm has investigated the subject, and how far in advance of his age he was. It is well said by Chrystal, in his great Encyclopaedia Britannica article onE lectricity, that Ohm rendered a great service to the science of electricity by publishing his mathematical theory of the galvanic circuit. Before his time, the quantitative circumstances of the electric current had been indicated, in a vague way, by the use of the terms intensity and quantity, to which no accurately defined meaning was attached.
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