"The design of this memoir is to deduce strictly from a few principles, obtained chiefly by experiment, the rationale of those electrical phenomena which are produced by the mutual contact of two or more bodies, and which have been termed galvanic; its aim is attained if by means of it the variety of facts be presented as unity to the mind."
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Georg Ohm (1827/91) The Galvanic Circuit Investigated Mathematically. Translated by William Francis. D. Van Nostrand Co. p. 11. The introductory sentence of his 1827 memoir.
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