Biography of augustin coulomb
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Charles Augustin de Coulomb.
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| (source) | Charles-Augustin Coulomb (14 Jun 1736 - 23 Aug 1806) French physicist who was a civil engineer in his early career, and later conducted experiments on electricity, for which he is best known. The SI unit of charge was named for him. Short biography of Charles-Augustin Coulomb >> |
by John Munro
from Pioneers of Electricity; or, Short Lives of the Great Electricians (1890)
[p.79] Coulomb has been regarded as the pioneer of experimental science in France, as William Gilbert was in England.
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The fame of both rests principally on their electrical and magnetic researches. Gilbert, the physician, who flourished two centuries earlier, obtained results which were chiefly qualitative. Coulomb, the mathematician and engineer, with the love of definition and the habit of measurement, inheriting the advances which had been made meanwhile, arrived at quantitative results.
He gauged the