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Helm, Georg ( 1851- ) : 



1904: Die Theorien der ElektrodjTiamik nach ihrer geschichtlichen Entwicklung 

 (172 p., Leipzig). 



Hoppe, Edmund (1854-1928; Isis 13, 45-50, portr.): 

 1884: Geschichte der Elektrizitat (642 p., Leipzig). 



Miller, Dayton Clarence (1866-1941): 



1939: Sparks, lightning, cosmic rays. An anecdotal history of electricity (210 

 p., illus.. New York; Isis 32, 382-83). 



Mottelay, Paul Fleury (1841-1922): 



1922: Bibliographical history of electricity and magnetism, chronologically ar- 

 ranged (693 p., London; Isis 6, 104-7). 



O'Reilly, Michael Francis (Brother Potamian 1847-1917) and Walsh, James J.: 



1909: Makers of electricity (408 p., ill. New York, Fordham). 



Potamian, religious name of O'Reilly, M. F. 



Priestley, Joseph (1733-1804): 



1767: History and present state of electricity with original experiments (768 p.. 

 7 pi., London). 



Ronalds, Sir Francis (1788-1873): 



1880: Catalogue of books relating to electricity, magnetism, the electric telegraph, 

 etc. (591 p., London). 



Sartiaux, Eugene; Aliamet. Maurice: 



1903: Principales decouvertes et publications concernant I'electricite de 1562 a 

 1900 (278 p., 278 fig., Paris). 



Turner, Dorothy M.: 



1927: Makers of science. Electricity and magnetism (200 p., 65 ill., Oxford; Isis 

 10, 266). 



Weaver, William Dixon ( 1857-1919 ) : 



1909: Catalogue of the [Schuyler Skaats] Wheeler gift of books, pamphlets and 

 periodicals to the Library of the American Institute of Civil Electrical Engineers (2 

 vols., 980 p., ill.. New York; Isis 6, 104-7). 



Whittaker, Edmund Taylor ( 1873- ) : 



1910: History of the theories of aether and electricity from the age of Descartes 

 to the close of the nineteenth centvury (480 p., London; Isis 2, 222-24). 



Witz, Aime (1848-1926): 



1921: L'electricite. Ses hypotheses et ses theories successives (174 p., Louvain; 

 Isis 5, 561). 



See Critical Bibliographies of Isis, section 22. Mechanics, 24. Physics. 



CHEMISTRY 



Berry, Arthur John ( 1886- ) : 



1948: Modern chemistry, some sketches of its historical development (250 p., 

 Cambridge University). 



Berthelot, Marcelin (1827-1907): 



1885: Les origines de I'alchimie (465 p., Paris). — Photographic reprint 1938. 



1889: Introduction a I'etude de la chimie des anciens et du moyen age (342 p., 

 ill., Paris). — German translation (140 p., ill., Leipzig 1909). — Photographic reprint 

 of the French original edition (Paris 1938). 



Bolton, Henry Carrington (1843-1903): 



1893-1904: Select bibliography of chemistry, 1482-1892 (1225 p., Washington, 



