text: Ørsted was a published poet, as well as scientist. His poetry series  ("The Airship") was inspired by the balloon flights of fellow physicist and stage magician Étienne-Gaspard Robert. 
  In 1850, shortly before his death, he submitted for publication a two-volume collection of philosophical articles in German under the title  ("The Soul in Nature"). It was translated into English and published in one volume in 1852, the year after his death.
  Other works:
  **, containing correspondence with Jöns Jacob Berzelius, Christopher Hansteen, and Christian Samuel Weiss.
  **, containing correspondence with Johann Wilhelm Ritter and numerous others, including Michael Faraday and Carl Friedrich Gauss.
  A significant number of Ørsted's papers were made available in English for the first time in a compilation published in 1998: