Hans Christian Ørsted : Reading Nature's Mind

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Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Abbreviations; List of Illustrations; Dedication; Part I: The Student; 1 1777-1851 Introduction; 2 1777-94 A Childhood without Playing; 3 1794-6 A University without Science; 4 1796-8 Two Philosophical Minds; 5 1796-7 Hans Christian's Gold Medals; 6 1798 Anders's Gold Medal; 7 1798-1800 Editors for Kant; 8 1798-9 Doctoral Thesis on the Dynamical System; 9 1800-01 Pharmacy Manager and Fiancé; 10 1799-1801 Galvanism; Part II: The Cosmospolitan; 11 1801-2 First Grand Tour Tourist far away from Sophie. 12 1801-2 Encountering Ritter and Winterl13 1801-2 Jena: Romanticism, Salons, and Societies; 14 1802-3 Post-revolutionary Paris; 15 1802-3 Ritter and the Napoleon Prize; 16 1802-3 The Double Game; Part III: The Researcher and Teacher; 17 1804 Alone and Abandoned in Copenhagen with a Collection of Instruments; 18 1805 Rivalry and Love; 19 1804-9 Textbook Writer and Professor; 20 1807 Fichte's Idealism and Napoleon's Wars; 21 1808 Sonorous Figures; 22 1808 The Art of Music; 23 1808 The Royal Danish Society of Sciences and Letters; 24 1809 Family and Friends. 25 1810 Dialogue on Mysticism Ritter's DeathPart IV: The Spouse; 26 1811 Career and Brothers Working Together; 27 1812-13 Second Journey Abroad Berlin and Paris; 28 1812-13 The Major Work; 29 1813 Controversy on Pantheism; 30 1814 Love and Marriage; 31 1812-15 The Prime Mover of Danish Science, and Gitte's First-Born Child; 32 1815-17 Dynamical Research A.S. Ørsted's Dissent; 33 1818-19 Shadows of Death Expedition to Bornholm; Part V: The Triumphator; 34 1820 The Happiest Year; 35 1820 A Discovery by Chance?; 36 1820-21 Domestic and Foreign Reactions. 37 1822-3 Ørsted's Triumphal Progress Germany38 1822-3 The Triumphal Progress Paris; 39 1823 The Triumphal Progress Britain; Part VI: The Organiser; 40 1823-4 The Society for the Dissemination of Science in Denmark; 41 1824 The Ørsted Brothers in the Howitz Controversy; 42 1825 Aluminium Priority and Nationalism; 43 1826-32 The Downfall of A.S. Ørsted The Millennium of Christianity The Tercentenary of the Reformation; 44 1827-8 Family Life and Conferences Abroad; 45 1828-9 The Polytechnic Institute; 46 1829-1833 The Literary Critic The Airship; 47 1831-9 The Awakening of Political Life. Part VII: Fame and Tribulations48 1831-9 Technology and Industry; 49 1833-9 The Natural Laws of General Education; 50 1839-47 Scandinavian Science Conferences; 51 1839-46 Politics and Nationalism; 52 1842-8 The Centenary of the Royal Danish Society Magnetischer Verein Henrik Steffens L.A. Colding; 53 1843 Homage in Berlin; 54 1843-6 Aesthetics of Nature; 55 1846 Homage in Britain; 56 1840-50 Polytechnic Criticism; 57 1848-9 Civil War and Free Constitution; 58 1849-50 The Soul in Nature; 59 1850-1 Big and Little Hans Christian's Modern Turning Point; 60 1849-51 Jubilee and Death