The experimental investigation by which Ampere established the laws of the mechanical action between electric currents is one of the most brilliant achievements in science. The whole, theory and experiment, seems as if it had leaped, full grown and full armed, from the brain of the 'Newton of electricity'. (ang.)
Źródło: A treatise on electricity and magnetism http://books.google.pl/books?id=57-jlpqK2pkC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false, Oxford University Press, 1998, tom 2, s. 175.
