Electricity in the 17th and 18th Centuries: A study of Early Modern Physics

Heilbron, J. L.; Devons, S.

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“…1979, J. L. Heilbron, Electricity in the 17 th and 18 th Centuries-A Study of Early Modern Physics [16]: "Gralath connected jars in parallel, in what he called an electrical battery; a stroke from two such phials, taken to the forehead, felt like a blow from a bludgeon.…”

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Who invented the earliest capacitor bank (“battery” of leyden jars)? it’s complicated [scanning our past]

Allerhand

2018

Proc. IEEE

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Who invented the earliest capacitor bank (“battery” of leyden jars)? it’s complicated [scanning our past]

Allerhand

2018

Proc. IEEE

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“…Faraday was not the first to achieve this. His mentor, Sir Humphry Davy, discovered six new elements using this method in 1807 15 . Prior to Davy, Anthony Carlisle and William Nicholson discovered the process of electrical decomposition by separating water into hydrogen and oxygen [27].…”

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“…The explanation for this occurrence requires some complex knowledge of the chemical composition and potentials of the electron shells of the materials.This, amongst other things, is the study of a branch of chemistry called electrochemistry 7. A translation from the French in[15] 8. Translation from the French, in[16, p 284].…”

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The electric vocabulary

Sheils¹

2011

Phys. Educ.

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Since the 1600s, the developments in the understanding of electrical phenomena have frequently altered the models and metaphors used by physicists to describe and explain their experiments. However, to this day, certain relics of past theories still drench the vocabulary of the subject, serving as distracting fog for future students. This article attempts, through historical illumination, to shine through the mist of electrostatic terminology and offer a clearer view of the classical model of electricity. Thales (624BC-546BC) William Gilbert (1544-1603) and Sir Thomas Browne (1605-82) Nature had to wait around 2200 years before any further investigation was made into amber or lodestone. In 1600, the English physicist

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“…233, 243; Waters, 1958, p. 246; Roller, 1959, pp. 94, 128–137, 153; Heilbron, 1979, pp. 171–173; Hall, 1983, p. 257; Crombie, 1994, pp.…”

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“…251, 313–320, 335–337, 349–395; Ruestow, 1973, pp. 34–60; Heilbron, 1979, pp. 35–40; van Berkel, 1981, pp.…”

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The Pursuit of Magnetic Shadows: The Formal-Empirical Dipole Field of Early-Modern Geomagnetism

Jonkers¹

2008

Centaurus

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The tension between empirical data and formal theory pervades the entire history of geomagnetism, from the Middle Ages up to the present day. This paper explores its early-modern history (1500-1800), using a hybrid approach: it applies a methodological framework used in modern geophysics to interpret early-modern developments, exploring to what extent formal conjectures shaped observation and vice versa. A range of pertinent case studies supports classification of this entire period as proto-scientific, characterised by the initial formation of theories being largely disconnected from observational constraints, and their subsequent evolution being advanced primarily by their empirical falsification, and not necessarily associated with the introduction of an alternative. The few exceptional instances of purely data-driven discovery were essentially due to an improved signal-to-noise ratio.

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Electricity in the 17th and 18th Centuries: A study of Early Modern Physics

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Who invented the earliest capacitor bank (“battery” of leyden jars)? it’s complicated [scanning our past]

Who invented the earliest capacitor bank (“battery” of leyden jars)? it’s complicated [scanning our past]

The electric vocabulary

The Pursuit of Magnetic Shadows: The Formal-Empirical Dipole Field of Early-Modern Geomagnetism

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