"Recherches sur la Cause de l'Électricité Voltaïque." Offprint from: Mémoires de la Société de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de Genève, 4, Part 3, 1828

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Genève:: J. Barbezat. 1828. paperback. 1. 4to. 50 pp. Later marbled wrappers. FINE. . FIRST EDITION. La Rive's major work and an influential factor in the development of electrical theory. "It was as a critic of Volta's contact theory that of the pile, which attributed the production of electricity in the pile to an electromotive force arising from the contact of heterogeneous substances, that La Rive made his European reputation." DSB VIII, p. 36. He was a friend of Arago, Ampère and Faraday, and became the dominant force in the Académie de Genève. Poggendorff II, p. 657; DSB VIII.

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