title: The Experimental and Historical Foundations of Electricity
author: Prof Andr Koch Torres Assis
description: Andre Koch Torres Assis was born in Brazil (1962) and educated at the University of Campinas - UNICAMP, BS (1983), PhD (1987). He spent the academic year of 1988 in England with a post-doctoral position at the Culham Laboratory (United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority). He spent one year in 1991-92 as a Visiting Scholar at the Center for Electromagnetics Research of Northeastern University (Boston, USA). From August 2001 to November 2002, and from February to May 2009, he worked at the Institute for the History of Natural Sciences, Hamburg University (Hamburg, Germany) with research fellowships awarded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation of Germany. He is the author of Weber's Electrodynamics (1994), Relational Mechanics (1999), Inductance and Force Calculations in Electrical Circuits (with M. A. Bueno, 2001), The Electric Force of a Current (with J. A. Hernandes, 2007), and Archimedes, the Center of Gravity, and the First Law of Mechanics (2008). He has been professor of physics at UNICAMP since 1989, working on the foundations of electromagnetism, gravitation, and cosmology.
zlib_text: Andre Koch Torres Assis 
  The Experimental 
  and Historical 
  Foundations of 
  Electricity   
  
   
  The Experimental and Historical 
  Foundations of Electricity 
   
  Andre Koch Torres Assis 
   
  Apeiron 
  Montreal 
  
   
  Published by C. Roy Keys Inc. 
  4405, rue St-Dominique 
  Montreal, Quebec H2W 2B2 Canada 
  http://redshift.vif.com 
  © Andre Koch Torres Assis, 2010. 
  First Published 2010 
   
  Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication  
   
  Assis, André Koch Torres, 1962- 
   
  The experimental and historical foundations of electricity / André  
  Koch Torres Assis. 
   
   
  Includes bibliographical references. 
  ISBN 978-0-9864926-3-1 
   
   
   
  1. Electricity--Experiments.  2. Electricity--History.  I. Title. 
   
   
  QC533.A88 2010                         537'.078                    C2010-901025-6  
    
   
  Front cover: The experiment by Stephen Gray (1666-1736) with the sus-
  pended boy (1731) as represented in Doppelmayr’s book, Neu-entdeckte 
  Phaenomena von bewunderswürdigen Würkungen der Natur, Nurenburg, 1774