The Soul in Nature - With Supplementary Contributions #244590

Oersted returned from Paris (1803) by the route of Brussels, Leyden, Haarlem, and Amsterdam. At home he continued to be considered more in the light of a natural philosopher, and less as a physicist, and on that account he was unable to obtain the chair of physics, though it was then vacant; however, for the period of three years he received an income of 300 bankthalers from the public purse, and an equal sum for experimental purposes. The University had at that time lost by fire all the instruments belonging to the laboratory.