Andre-Marie Ampere : Enlightenment and Electrodynamics (Paperback)

List of illustrations; General editor's preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I. Coming of Age (1775?1804): 1. Idyllic youth; 2. Marriage and provincial life (1800?1804); Part II. Paris (1804?1820): 3. Laplacian physics; 4. Ampere in Paris; 5. Metaphysics: Ampere, Kant and Maine de Biran; 6. Mathematics, chemistry and physics (1804?1820); Part III. Electrodynamics: 7. Ampere's response to the discovery of electromagnetism (1820); 8. Ampere's electrodynamics (1821?1822); 9. Defence and elaboration of the theory; Part IV. Closing Years: 10. The final synopsis; Notes; Bibliography; Index.