AMPÈRE, Essai sur la Philosophie des Sciences, 1834

First edition.
André-Marie Ampère (1775-1836) was a French mathematician, physicist, and chemist, considered one of the founders of electromagnetism. A member of the Royal Academy of Sciences and a professor at the Collège de France and the École Polytechnique, he is famous for Ampère's law and the unit of electric current that bears his name. Beyond his scientific contributions, Ampère was also interested in the classification of sciences, as this Essay demonstrates.