"Recherches sur la Cause de l'Electricite Voltaique." Offprint from: Memoires de la Societe de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de Geneve, 4, Part 3, 1828.
by LA RIVE, Arthur-Auguste de (1801-1873)
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Geneve:: J. Barbezat, 1828., 1828. 4to. 50 pp. Later marbled wrappers. FINE. FIRST EDITION. La Rive's major work and an influential factor in the development of electrical theory. "It was as a critic of Volta's contact theory that of the pile, which attributed the production of electricity in the pile to an electromotive force arising from the contact of heterogeneous substances, that La Rive made his European reputation." DSB VIII, p. 36. He was a friend of Arago, Ampere and Faraday, and became the dominant force in the Academie de Geneve. Poggendorff II, p. 657; DSB VIII.
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- Bookseller
- Jeff Weber Rare Books (CH)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- "Recherches sur la Cause de l'Electricite Voltaique." Offprint from: Memoires de la Societe de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de Geneve, 4, Part 3, 1828.
- Author
- LA RIVE, Arthur-Auguste de (1801-1873)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Publisher
- J. Barbezat, 1828.
- Place of Publication
- Geneve:
- Date Published
- 1828
- Keywords
- Electricity
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