著者
布施 光男
出版者
日本科学史学会
雑誌
科学史研究 (ISSN:21887535)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.28, no.171, pp.143-151, 1989 (Released:2021-09-01)

Recently some considerations on batteries of Shozan Sakuma (1811-1864) have been given by several scholors, but there is still posibility of further study on this subject. The aim of this paper is to investigate the following matters : Firstly, we clarify what kind of battery was one described in Sakuma's letter, and secondly we investigate what Dutch literature Sakuma made his existing battery based on. Finally, we survey Japanese books published before 1858 in which batteries were described and make a comparative study of Sakuma's battery, in order to know how batteries had been spread in Japan at that time