Gian Domenico Romagnosi
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Gian Domenico Romagnosi (December 11, 1761 – June 8, 1835) was an Italian philosopher, economist and jurist.
Romagnosi was born in Salsomaggiore Terme. He is believed to be the first person to publish, in 1802, an account suggesting a relationship between electricity and magnetism, about two decades before Hans Christian Ørsted's 1820 discovery of the same relationship. Romagnosi's account of an electric current from a voltaic pile deflecting a magnetic needle, published in an Italian newspaper, was largely overlooked by the contemporary scientific community.
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- Romagnosi and the discovery of electromagnetism
- Romagnosi and Volta’s pile: Early difficulties in the interpretation of voltaic electricity
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