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Physicist Hans Christian Oersted 1847 DS

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Physicist Hans Christian Oersted 1847 DS
<B>Danish Physicist Hans Christian Oersted 1847 Document Signed</B></I> "<I>H. Oersted</B></I>". One page in his native language, 8.5" x 11", on Royal Danish Society of the Sciences letterhead, September 1, 1847, transmitting an academic publications to the secretary of the Gottingen Royal Society of Sciences. The dictionary defines <I>Oersted</B></I> as "the magnetic field strength 1 cm from a unit magnetic pole." It would seem that if you've had a standard unit named after you, you've done pretty well in your field. Oersted (1777-1851) was a Danish physicist and chemist whose discovery in 1819 that a magnetic needle is deflected at right angles to a conductor carrying an electric current established a relationship between magnetism and electricity and initiated the study of electromagnetism. In fine condition, with one horizontal fold, several ink notations, and scattered foxing.
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