Page:The Galvanic Circuit Investigated Mathematically.pdf/16

 AUTHOR'S PREFACE.

I HEREWITH present to the public a theory of galvanic electricity, as a special part of electrical science in general, and shall successively, as time, inclination, and means permit, arrange more such portions together into a whole, if this first essay shall in some degree repay the sacrifices it has cost me. The circumstances in which I have hitherto been placed have not been adapted either to encourage me in the pursuit of novelties, or to enable me to become acquainted with works relating to the same department of literature throughout its whole extent. I have therefore chosen for my first attempt a portion in which I have the least to apprehend competition.

May the well-disposed reader receive the performance with the same love for the object as that with which it is sent forth!

THE AUTHOR.

BERLIN, May 1, 1827.

9