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André-Marie Ampère was a French physicist and mathematician who did much work in the field of electricity. The unit of electrical current, the Amp is named for him.
Click here for the text of Ampère’s statement and a discussion of Ampère, from Christianity and the Leaders of Modern Science, courtesy of Google Books.
Click here for the original text, from Ampere’s Essai sur la Philosophie des Sciences of 1843.
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