References for Charles Augustin Coulomb

1. S Gillmour, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
   http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-2830901008.html
2. Biography in Encyclopaedia Britannica.
   http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9026555/Charles-Augustin-de-Coulomb

Books:

3. C S Gillmor, Charles Augustin Coulomb : Physics and Engineering in Eighteenth Century France (Princeton, N.J., 1971).

Articles:

4. S B Hamilton, Charles Auguste de Coulomb, Trans. Newcomen Soc. (London) 17 (1938), 27-49.
5. I V Kragelskii and V S Schedrov, in Development of the science of friction - dry friction (Moscow, 1956), 51-69.
6. Yu A Lyubimov, The memoirs of Coulomb - the beginning of modern electromagnetism (Russian), History and methodology of the natural sciences XXX (Moscow, 1983), 101-129.

July 2000