Strasburg, Jean-Francois Le Roux, 1753[-54].
Description des courants magnétiques dessinés et graves d’après nature en XV planches, suivi de quelques observations sur l’aiman.
Rare first edition, complete with its separately issued supplement, of this early treatise on lines of magnetism, including an attempt to explain the origin of these forces by a theory of vortices, and illustrated with 20 folding etchings. The problem of describing and calculating what would become known as magnetic..... More