Re: A Physics Textbook Error

[Doug Craigen <dcc@CYBERSPC.MB.CA>]

brian whatcott wrote:
> > > In one of my textbooks, it states that OHMs law was invented by OHM
> > > Some other textbooks say that OHMs law was made by Kirchhoff...
>  This publication date permits little room for maneuver to the claim
>  that Kirchhoff had priority. "The Galvanic Circuit Investigated
>  Mathematically" appeared when Kirchhoff was three years old.

This sounds pretty definitive to me.  It may still be that although the
relation is due to Ohm, the person who started referring to it as "Ohm's
Law" was Kirchhoff.  Anybody care to take a stab at that possibility?