BIBLIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY

OF

ELECTRICITY & MAGNETISM

OF

ELECTRICITY & MAGNETISM

CHRONOLOGICALLY ARRANGED

RESEARCHES INTO THE DOMAIN OF THE

EARLY SCIENCES, ESPECIALLY FROM THE PERIOD OF
THE REVIVAL OF SCHOLASTICISM, WITH BIOGRAPHICAL AND OTHER
ACCOUNTS OF THE MOST DISTINGUISHED NATURAL PHILOSOPHERS
THROUGHOUT THE MIDDLE AGES

COMPILED BY

PAUL FLEURY MOTTELAY, Ph.D.

AUTHOR OF

"GILBERT OF COLCHESTER, "THE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ELECTRO-CHEMISTRY," ETC.

WITH INTRODUCTION BY THE LATE

PROF. SILVANUS P. THOMPSON, D.Sc., F.R.S.

AND FOREWORD BY

SIR R. T. GLAZEBROOK, K.C.B., D.Sc., F.R.S.

"Historia, quoquo modo scripta delectat."-Pliny.
"Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas."-Virgil.

"Il importe beaucoup de connaître l'histoire de la science à laquelle on
s'attache."-Eloge de Boerhaave.

"It is of great advantage to the student of any subject to read in the
original memoirs on that subject, for science is always most completely
assimilated when it is found in its nascent state. Every student of science
should, in fact, be an antiquary in his subject."-J. Clerk Maxwell.

"Les tâtonnements de nos prédécesseurs nous apprennent à marcher avec
plus de sûreté, et l'on ne sait jamais mieux conduire la science en avant que
lorsqu'on sait le chemin qu'elle a parcouru jusqu'à nous.”—J. P. Rossignol.

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