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Author Christensen, Dan Ch., 1941- author.

Title Hans Christian Ørsted : reading nature's mind / Dan Charly Christensen
Edition 1st ed
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 743 pages) : illustrations
Contents pt. I. The student -- pt. II. The cosmopolitan -- pt. III. The researcher and teacher -- pt. IV. The spouse -- pt. V. The triumphator -- pt. VI. The organiser -- pt. VII. Fame and tribulations
Summary This is the narrative of the Scandinavian scientist, Hans Christian Ørsted, the discoverer of electromagnetism. Ørsted was also one of the cultural leaders and organizers of the Danish Golden Age, making significant contributions to aesthetics philosophy, pedagogy, politics, and religion
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Ørsted, Hans Christian, 1777-1851.
SUBJECT Ørsted, Hans Christian, 1777-1851 fast
Subject Physicists -- Denmark -- Biography
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Science & Technology.
SCIENCE -- Physics -- Electricity.
SCIENCE -- Physics -- Electromagnetism.
Physicists
Elektromagnetism -- historia.
Fysiker.
Denmark
Genre/Form Biographies
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780191647116
019164711X
9780191748745
0191748749