as quoted by [C. Stewart Gillmor, Coulomb and the Evolution of Physics and Engineering in Eighteenth-century France, Princeton University Press, 1971, 069108095X, 255-261]
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Charles-Augustin de Coulomb was a French military engineer and physicist. He is best known for developing what is now known as Coulomb's law, the description of the electrostatic force of attraction and repulsion, but also did important work on friction.
The SI unit of electric charge, the coulomb, was named in his honour in 1908.
✵ 14. June 1736 – 23. August 1806
