LORENZ, L. (LUDVIG VALENTIN).

Om Elektricitetens Forplantning. (On the propagation of Electricity).

Kjøbenhavn, Bianco Luno, 1873. Contemp. clothbacked blank boards. Offprint from "Oversigter over d. K.D. Vidensk. Selskabs Forhandlinger. 1879". A stamp on title-page. (2),32 pp. Scattered brownspots.

First edition, offprint issue. Lorenz is well known for his achievements in optics, the formula for dependence of refraction upon specific gravity (the Lorentz-Lorenz formula), and his electromagnetic theory of light, developed in a relatively unknown paper of 1867, two years after Maxwell’s famous paper on the same subject.

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