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Hans Christian Orsted

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The agreement of this law with nature will be better seen by the repetition of experiments than by a long explanation.
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relating his discovery of the magnetic effect of an electric current, in Experiments on the Effect of a Current of Electricity on the Magnetic Needle, Annals of Philosophy 1820, vol. 16, p. 273-277

 
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