The intellectual rise in electricity; a history (1895)
Benjamin, Park, 1849-1922. [from old catalog] · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 250
ered conclusive as to the identityof magnetic and electric attraction. Yet within a veryfew years it was challenged. On the 24th of September, 1501, there was born inMilan the first of that trio of Italian philosophers whoseachievements in physical science seem all the more bril-liant by contrast… … dan, as his name is commonly Anglicized, belonged to thegeneration immediately preceding theirs; but the threelives overlapped, and much of their work was done con-temporaneously. There is little resemblance to the mer-curial, inquisitive, precocious Porta, still less to the 1Morley, H.: The Life…
Electricity · Magnetism
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