Dissertatio Physica De Mercurio Lucente In Vacuo Quam Annuente Aeterno Luminum Patre Permissu

by Bernoulli Johann I Wilhelm Bernhard Nebel Praeses Respndens

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First edition

Basel: Frederick Lüdi, 1719 . First edition, extremely rare, and a presentation copy from Nicolaus I Bernoulli to James Stirling, of this dissertation which describes Johann I Bernoulli’s two decades of work on ‘barometric light’ – the discovery of this phenomenon revealed the possibility of electric lighting. One of the foremost mathematicians of eighteenth-century Europe, James Stirling was a

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