By Andrew D. Wilson (auth.), Professor Robert Michael Brain, Professor Robert S. Cohen, Professor Ole Knudsen (eds.)
This quantity owes its beginning to the belief of a perplexing paradox. Hans Christian Ørsted, the good Danish scientist and thinker, used to be one of many founders of contemporary physics via his experimental discovery in 1820 of the interplay of electrical energy and magnetism—a key step and version for the extra unification of the forces of nature. fans corresponding to Maxwell and Einstein have been, and this present day searchers world wide are, enchanted by means of the desire for a of entirety of that grand application. as well as Ørsted’s discovery of electromagnetism, his paintings in technology incorporated different fields, mainly high-pressure physics and acoustics. furthermore, he belonged to that attention-grabbing workforce of seekers who have been deeply engaged within the Romantic culture of the character Philosophers, motivated via Immanuel Kant and through spiritual, literary, and aesthetic currents. The clinical and philosophical speculations via Ørsted and his circle additionally quick motivated the mind's eye of alternative philosophers and scientists. one of the latter have been prominently André-Marie Ampère and Michael Faraday, whose paintings introduced the transformation of civilization known as the second one Ind- trial Revolution, in accordance with the discovery of vehicles, turbines, and the pervasi- ness of electrical energy in glossy life.
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318. Ibid. p. 321. Anders Sandøe Ørsted, Af mit Livs og min Tids Historie—Udgivet med Forkortelser i Hundredaaret for Oprettelsen af det Anders Sandøe Ørstedske Prismedaille Legat ved Legatets Bestyrelse (København: Arne Frost-Hansens Forlag, 1951), p. 21. Claus Bjørn, Fra reaktion til grundlov (n. 11), p. 68. Ibid. p. 163. 28 A. HESSENBRUCH This does not amount to egalitarianism. All women and 90% of the town’s population had no share in the new opportunities. Furthermore, the law still regarded the peasantry as distinct from the rest of the population, a state of affairs connected with the direct taxation of the land.
The Polytechnic High School, with its paid staff of full-time teachers, was now able to assume the bulk of these obligations. 6 7 The fluid to be studied was placed in a vessel fitted with a narrow tube and sealed with a drop of mercury. This vessel was placed in a larger, water-filled container to which pressure could be applied by a piston. The volume of the water could be determined, from the height of the mercury drop, with confidence since its container was subject to equal internal and external pressures.
In 1814 Ørsted published an article in Latin, Tentamen nomenclaturae chemicae omnibus linguis Scandinavico-Germanicis communis, in which he proposed new chemical terms in Danish, Swedish, German, and Dutch. His aim was to introduce terms that were more immediately recognizable as words of native origin and therefore easier to understand for people with no knowledge of foreign languages. This is why the Danish word for oxygen is ilt, and hydrogen is brint, generated from the words ild (meaning fire) and brand (meaning burn).