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AMPERE LETTERS SHOW FLOWERING OF YOUNG GENIUS
THE 19th-century French physicist Andre Marie Ampere had ample reason to choose for his gravestone the epitaph ''Tandem felix'' -Happy, at last. His father's execution in the French Revolution in 1793 left the young Ampere literally speechless for a year and in a prolonged state of deep depression. Later in his tortured life, he was plunged into recurring depressions by the death of his young wife, troubles with his two children and an unhappy second marriage. Moreover, Ampere's application of advanced mathematics to electrical and magnetic phenomena set the stage for James Clerk Maxwell's electromagnetic theory, which in 1860 linked together light and other forms of radiation in a single family of ''electromagnetic radiations.'' It was Maxwell who described Ampere as the ''Newton of electricity.'' An older Ampere would break with the reigning philosophy of French science, which was called positivism. The positivists considered theorizing unscientific. Ampere put more and more emphasis on imaginative theorizing and mathematical analysis rather than experimentation. The positivists paid attention only to direct observation, accepting only what they could see and rejecting explanations dependent on hidden forces. But as early as 1795, Dr. [L. Pearce Williams] said, it appeared from the letters that Ampere was ''playing with ideas of metaphysics in an attempt to understand the subsensible world.''
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André-Marie Ampère
Nineteenth century scientist Andre-Marie Ampere was among the first to adapt Kantian theories of what man can know and how he can know it to scientific theory. These theories guided him in quantifying the magnetic effects of electricity.
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