Stephen Gray e a Descoberta dos Condutores e Isolantes: Tradu??o Comentada de Seus Artigos sobre Eletricidade e Reprodu??o de Seus Principais Experimentos
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| Author | Andre K T Assis, J J Caluzi |
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| Language | Portuguese |
| Subject | History of physics, electricity |
| Published | 2012 |
| Publisher | Editora Cultura Acad?mica da Unesp |
| Pages | 458 |
| ISBN | 9788579833748 |
Stephen Gray e a Descoberta dos Condutores e Isolantes (subtitle: Tradução Comentada de Seus Artigos sobre Eletricidade e Reprodução de Seus Principais Experimentos) is a 2012 Portuguese-language book by André K. T. Assis, Sérgio Luiz Bragatto Boss, and João José Caluzi, published by Cultura Acadêmica (Editora Unesp).
Overview
The book recounts the work of the English natural philosopher Stephen Gray (1666–1736), whose principal discovery was that materials fall into two classes with very different electrical properties — what we now call conductors and insulators — and who first demonstrated the conduction (or "communication") of electricity over a distance. It provides a commented Portuguese translation of Gray's articles on electricity and describes how to reproduce his principal experiments, in the tradition of Assis's historically grounded studies of electromagnetism.
About the authors
André Koch Torres Assis is a Brazilian physicist at the University of Campinas (Unicamp); Sérgio L. B. Boss and João José Caluzi are Brazilian physicists and historians/teachers of physics. See also Assis's Eletrodinâmica de Ampère.
Publication details
- Authors: A. K. T. Assis, S. L. B. Boss, and J. J. Caluzi
- Publisher: Cultura Acadêmica (Editora Unesp)
- Published: 2012
- Language: Portuguese
- Pages: 458
- ISBN: 9788579833748