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- 60 -DE L'ACADEMIE DE PARIS, vol. VI, 1823), however I could come neither to the originalpublication nor to some later publication of this paper. The deduction of this formulawhich Maxwell gives in his "TREATISE" (§§ 502-507) is atrocious . And I am surethat if one should ask some of the defenders of Ampere's formula, how physically hasone to deduce this formula, NONE of them will be able to do this.I consider as the best mathematical deduction of Ampere's formula the deductiongiven by Wesley (PROGRESS IN SPACE-TIME PHYSICS 1987, p. 199) when proceeding fromthe Weber potential energy of two electrical charges moving with a certain velocity onewith respect to the other. This deduction is given also in the paper of Prof. D. Spencerpublished in this volume.The physical deduction of Grassmann's formula is based on a complex of experimentalfacts which have been crystallized in the assumptions (A), (B) and (D) givenIn my letter to Prof. Wesley of the 20 June 1990 (published in this volume).The mathematical deduction of Grassmann's formula when proceeding from the Neumannpotential energy of two electric charges moving with teir respective absolute velocitiesis given in TWT-II, p. 82.I leave the physical deduction with which Grassmann comes to his formula to my readers'teeth.At the end I should like to turn my readers' attention to the two arguments in §3of Grassmann's paper against Ampere's formula.The first argument was already discussed on p. 91 of TWT-II.Here I shall cite the second argument:Denn bei alien anderen Kraften sind es urspriinglich punktartige Elemente, d.h. Elementeohne bestimmte Richtungen, welche aufeinander wirken, und bei diesen laBtsich die Notwendigkeit der gegenseitigen Wirkung langs ihrer Verbindungsliniesogar a pfUofU ableiten; was berechtigt uns aber, diese Analogie auf ein ganzfremdartiges Gebiet, auf welchem die Elemente mit bestimmten Richtungen begabtsind, zu Ubertragen?On the other hand, however, if assuming that the forces with which two current elementsact one on another are not equal and oppositely directed along the line connectingthem, one comes to a conflict with Newton's third law. And we know well that Ampere deducedhis formula proceedings from four experimental facts observed by him (which untilthe present day remained valid - see them described in Maxwell's "TREATISE" §§ 505-508)and one theoretical assumption ; Newton's third law. But this theoretical assumption,although being canonized by the genius of all times, Newton, turned out to be wrong forthe case of interaction between current elements (as I showed in EPPUR SI MUOVE andCLASSICAL PHYSICS, Newton's third law is valid for the full forces m + qdA/cdt butnot for the forces mu, where u is the acceleration of the mass m whose electric chargeis q and A is the magnetic potential generated by the surrounding system at the pointof its location).