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James R. Hofmann is Professor of Liberal Studies at California State University Fullerton. He is the author of André-Marie Ampère: Enlightenment and Electrodynamics, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
The Académie des Sciences preserves the Ampère archives in approximately forty boxes. Documents in the first twenty-six of these boxes are subdivided into 393 folders (chemises). Some chemises have additional identifiers bis or ter. Most historians cite documents from these chemises by noting their chemise number, such as chemise 208bis. To specify a particular section of text within a document, Steinle uses an additional identifying letter such as 208bis(f).
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Ampère et l’histoire de l’électricité, accessed March 9, 2017, http://www.ampere.cnrs.fr/.
L. Pearce Williams, “What Were Ampère’s Earliest Discoveries in Electrodynamics?,” Isis 74 (1983), 492–508, on 506.
Ibid., 508.
James Hofmann, André-Marie Ampère: Enlightenment and Electrodynamics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995), 238.
Ibid., 264.
Kenneth Caneva, “Ampère, the Etherians, and the Oersted Connexion,” British Journal for the History of Science 13, no. 2 (1980): 121–38.
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Hofmann, J.R. Essay Review. Phys. Perspect. 19, 307–318 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00016-017-0206-7
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