Van Swinden demonstrating the generation of electricity to the Felix Meritis Society, Amsterdam. Jean Henri van Swinden (June 8, 1746 - March 9, 1823) was a Dutch mathematician and physicist. In 1776 he won a prize from the Académie Royale des Sciences along with Charles-Augustin de Coulomb for his work on earth's magnetic field, and the relationship between magnetism and electricity.

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