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In 1773, Henry Cavendish (1731–1810) established, by analogy to Newton’s universal law of gravity, the formula expressing the interaction force between two point charges.
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Chaichian, M., Merches, I., Radu, D., Tureanu, A. (2016). Electrostatic Field. In: Electrodynamics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-17381-3_1
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