AMPERE, André Marie || BABINET. Exposé des nouvelles découvertes sur l’électricité et le magnétisme. 1822.

First edition, separately-paginated offprint of this early publication on electricity and magnetism in which Ampère and Babinet review the latest discoveries concerning electromagnetism.
Papper first published as a supplement to the French translation by Jean-René-Denis-Alexandre Riffault of the fifth edition of Thomas Thomson's Système de chimie.
Ampère notably presents his famous rule called "Ampère's rule" which describes the direction in which a magnetized needle moves near a conducting wire in which a current flows. His galvanometer, a device for measuring current intensity. As well as the idea of ​​an electric telegraph system.
Book that bears witness to the excitement caused among physicists by Oerstedt's experiment in 1820 which opened a new scientific field, electromagnetism.
A very complete copy of the last leaf (table and errata) which is usually missing.