Discovering Gauss's Magnetic Flux Experiment for Magnetism Law

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Does anyone have any clue on how Gauss experimented on his law for magnetism?

The experiment he did to find the magnetic flux

Any help will be appreciated
 
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Aren't Gauss's laws for Electricity and magnetism more mathematical results than experimental observations? Because magnetic monopoles don't exist we can see that the flux will be zero through any closed surface. Maybe I am wrong and he did do experiments.
 
Yeah, i was just reading about Gauss turning it into a mathematical equation

Is he continuing what Michael Faraday did not finish?
 
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