Preface: Karen Jelved and Andrew D. Jackson ix
Introduction: Andrew D. Wilson xv
1 Response to the Prize Question in Medicine Set by the University of Copenhagen in the Year 1797: On the Origin and Use of Amniotic Fluid (1798) 3
2 Letters on Chemistry. First Letter (1798) 26
3 Letters on Chemistry. Second Letter, on Heat (1798) 29
4 Letters on Chemistry. Third Letter (1799) 35
5 Letters on Chemistry. Fourth Letter (1799) 41
6 Fundamentals of the Metaphysics of Nature, Partly According to a New Plan (1799) 46
7 Dissertation on the Structure of the Elementary Metaphysics of External Nature (1799) 79
8 Experiments and Observations Concerning Galvanic Electricity (1801)101
9 An Addendum by Dr. Orsted to His Remarks on Galvanism (1801) 104
10 Continued Experiments on Galvanism (1801) 106
11 A Review of the Latest Advances in Physics (1803) 107
12 Materials for a Chemistry of the Nineteenth Century (1803) 120
13 Correspondence (1804) 166
14 Galvano-Chernical Observations (1804) 168
15 Criticism of the So-CalledEudiometry with Regard to Medicine (1805) 170
16 A Letter from Dr. Orsted of Copenhagen to Mr. J. W. Ritter of Jena, Concerning Chladni's Acoustic Figures in an Electrical Context (1805) 180
17 A Letter from Mr. Orsted, Professor of Philosophy in Copenhagen, to Professor Pictet on Acoustic Vibrations (1805) 181
18 On the Harmony Between Electrical Figures and Organic Forms (1805) 185
19 New Investigations into the Question: What Is Chemistry? (1805) 192
20 An Attempt towards a New Theory of Spontaneous Combustion (1805) 200
21 On the Manner in Which Electricity Is Transmitted (A Fragment) (1806) 210
22 Correspondence (1806) 215
23 Experiments Prompted by Some Passages in Winterl's Writings (1806) 218
24 The Series of Acids and Bases (1806) 227
25 Reflections on the History of Chemistry, A Lecture (1807) 243
26 On Acoustic Figures (1807) 261
27 Orsted on Simon's (Volta's) New Law for Electrical Atmospheric Effects (1808) 263
28 Experiments on Acoustic Figures (1810) 264
29 First Introduction to General Physics (1811) 282
30 View of the Chemical Laws of Nature Obtained Through Recent Discoveries (1812) 310
31 On the Law of Electrical Attraction (1814) 393
32 Proposal for New Danish Terms in Chemistry (1814) The Law for the Weakening of Electrical Effects with Distance (1815) 394
33 Theory of Light (1816) 397
34 On Galvanic Trough Apparatuses and Spark Discharge in Mercury Vapour (1816) 400
35 Observations Regarding Contact Electricity (1817) 402
36 On the Compression of Water (1817) 407
37 On the Way in Which a Textbook in Physics Ought to Be Written (1817); Investigations on the Compressibility of Water (1818) 408
38 On Piperine, a New Plant Alkaloid (1820) 411
39 Experiments on the Effect of the Electric Conflict on the Magnetic Needle (July 21, 1820) 413
39a Experiments on the Effect of a Current of Electricity on the Magnetic Needle (1820) 417
40 New Electro-Magnetic Experiments (1820) 421
41 Note on the Discovery of Electromagnetism (1821) 425
42 Observations on Electro-magnetism (1821) 430
43 Correspondence (1821) 446
44 An Experiment on Zamboni's Double Galvanic Circuit (1821) 450
45 A Method to Facilitate the Generation of Steam (1822) 452
46 The Orsted Experiment on the Compression of Water (1822) 453
47 On the Compressibility of Water (1823) 457
48 New Experiments by Dr. Seebeck on Electromagnetic Effects (1823) 462
49 An Electromagnetic Experiment (1823) 464
50 On M. Schweigger's Electromagnetic Multiplier, with an Account of Some Experiments made with it (1823) 466
51 On Some New Thermoelectric Experiments Performed by Baron Fourier and M. Orsted (1823) 470
52 On an Apparent Paradoxical Galvanic Experiment (1824) 478
53 Experiments Proving That Mariotte's Law Is Applicable to All Kinds of Gases; and at All Degrees of Pressure under Which the Gases Retain Their Aeriform State (1825) 481
54 Preliminary Note on the Production of Aluminium, Aluminium. Chloride, and Silicon Chloride (1825) 492
55 Contribution to the Determination of the Law of the Compression of Bodies (1826) 493
56 [Improvements of the Compression Apparatus 1826. Measurement of the Compressibility of Mercury] (1827) 518
57 On the Relative Compressibilities of different Fluids at High Temperatures (1827) 526
58 An Electromagnetic Method for the Assay of Silver and Other Metals Invented by M. Orsted (1828) 528
59 Observations Concerning the Compressibility of Fluids (1828) 535
60 On the Compression of Water in Vessels of Varying Compressibility (1828) 537
61 A New Electromagnetic Experiment Disproving Ampere's Theory (1830); Remarks on the Relation Between Sound, Light, Heat, and Electricity (1830) 539
62 Thermo-Electricity (1830) 542
63 An Explanation of Faraday's Magneto-Electric Discovery (1832) 581
64 Results of New Experiments on the Compressibility of Water (1834) 583
65 On the Compressibility of Water (1834) 586
66 New Experiments on the Effect of the Electrical Circuit (1835) 593
67 On a New Electrometer (1841) 595
68 A New Device for the Measurement of Capillarity (1841) 597
69 An Investigation of Light with Regard to the Physics of Beauty (1842) 599
70 Continued Reflections on Light with Regard to the Physics of Beauty (1843) 601
71 Development of the Theory of Lustre (1843) 603
72 An Account of Experiments on the Heat Generated by the Compression of Water (1845) 607
73 Letter, on the Deviation of Falling Bodies from the Perpendicular, to Sir John Herschel, Bart. (1847) 610
74 On the Changes which Mercury sometimes suffers in Glass Vessels hermetically Sealed (1847) 613
75 On Faraday's Diamagnetic Experiments (1847) 614
76 Experiments on the Carrying Capacity of the Large Electromagnet of the Polytechnic School (1847) 616
77 Abstract of a Series of Experiments on Diamagnetism (1848) 619
78 Investigations on Diamagnetism (1848) 626
79 Further Investigations on Diamagnetism and Their Results (1849) 632
Subject Index 639
Name Index 643