New Experiments On Electricity Wherein The Causes Of Thunder And Lightning As Well As The Constant

by Rev A Braham Bennet Curate Of Wirksworth F R S

$2,000 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

Folding frontispece and 3 other folding plates. xvii, 18 -141pp. With a list of subscribers inserted between sigg.A2 and 3. 8vo. Original paper over boards, uncut, one inch piece of spine missing, else beautiful. Ownership signature of John H. Cafner on title-page. ESTC T67086. Item #366179 Bennet was a clergyman who was also a physicist. He invented the gold-leaf electroscope and an improved magnetometer. Alesandra Volta regarded the theory of

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