H. C. Ørsted. Naturvidenskabelige Skrifter udgivet til minde om 21. juli 1820. H. C. Ørsted. Scientific Papers. Collected edition with two essays on his work by Kirstine Meyer née Bjerrum. Vol. I, II, III. [Complete].

København, Andr. Fred. Høst & Søn, 1920. Three volumes in three. Large 4to (28.9 x 20.1 cm). clxvi, 1358 pp., three frontispiece portraits, numerous text figures. Original uniform printed wrappers. A very uncommon if not rare collection of Ørsted's work with two additional essays on his work by Kirstine Meyer. Written in German and Danish, Latin and French, depending upon where Ørsted published his work. The essays by Meyer in English. The Danish physicist and chemist Hans Christian Ørsted, or Oersted (1777-1851) is principally known for his reseaches in electromagnetism. He "discovered that electric currents create magnetic fields, which was the first connection found between electricity and magnetism. He is still known today for Oersted's Law. He shaped post-Kantian philosophy and advances in science throughout the late 19th century. In 1824, Ørsted founded Selskabet for Naturlærens Udbredelse (SNU), a society to disseminate knowledge of the natural sciences. He was also the founder of predecessor organizations which eventually became the Danish Meteorological Institute and the Danish Patent and Trademark Office. Ørsted was the first modern thinker to explicitly describe and name the thought experiment. A leader of the so-called Danish Golden Age, Ørsted was a close friend of Hans Christian Andersen ... The oersted (Oe), the cgs unit of magnetic H-field strength, is named after him" (Wikipedia). Small, weak stamp on Danish title pages and front covers; library labels on spine feet; top of spine of volume I with short tear and chip, otherwise a very good, clean set.