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We can scarcely believe that Ampère really discovered the law of action by means of the experiments which he describes. We are led to suspect, what, indeed, he tells us himself, that he discovered the law by some process which he has not shown us, and that when he had afterwards built up a perfect demonstration he removed all traces of the scaffolding by which he had raised it. (Maxwell about Ampères Memoir on the Mathematical Theory of Electrodynamic Phenomena, Uniquely Deduced from Experience)
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Eriksson, K., Johnson, C., Estep, D. (2004). Curve Integrals. In: Applied Mathematics: Body and Soul. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-05800-8_10
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