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Electricity - Early works to 1800
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A short view of electricity, by B. Wilson, F.R.S. And Member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences at Petersburgh, &c. &c.
Wilson, Benjamin, 1721-1788.Date: M.DCC.LXXX. [1780]- Books
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Miscellaneous observations, together with a collection of experiments on electricity. With the manner of performing them. Designed to Explain the Nature and Cause of the most remarkable Phaenomena thereof: With some remarks on a pamphlet, intituled, A sequel to the experiments and observations tending to illustrate the nature and properties of electricity. To which is annexed, a letter, written by the author to the Academy of Sciences at Bourdeaux, relative to the Similarity of Electricity to Lightening and Thunder. By B. Rackstrow.
Rackstrow, Benjamin, -1772.Date: M.DCC.XLVIII. [1748]- Books
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Electricology: or, a discourse upon electricity. Being an enquiry into the nature; causes; properties; and effects thereof, upon the principles of the æther. Illustrated By a Series of Surprizing Experiments. Containing, Every Thing curious in this Branch of Philosophy, that has been communicated by Professor Muschenbroek; Le Monier; L'Abbe Nolet, &c. abroad; and by Messieurs Watson, Martin, and other Literati at Home: With several new and conclusive Ones; and particularly, the surprizing Phoenomenon of the Sensitive Plant, and wonderful benumbing Property of the Torpedo, are herein explain'd and accounted for. By R. Turner.
Turner, Robert, active 1746.Date: 1746- Books
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An account of several new and interesting phenomena, discovered in examining the bodies of a man and four horses, killed by lightning, near Dover, in Kent. With remarks on the insufficiency of the popular theory of electricity to explain them. By the Reverend John Lyon, minister of Sr. Mary's, Dover.
Lyon, John, 1734-1817.Date: 1796- Books
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Dissertatio physico-medica inauguralis de electricitate. Quam, annuente summo numine, ex auctoritate reverendi admodum viri, Gulielmi Robertson, S.S.T.P. academiæ Edinburgenæ præfecti, nec non amplissimi senatus academici consensu, et nobilissimae facultatis medicæ decreto, pro gradu doctoris, summisque in medicina honoribus et privilegiis rite et legitime consequendis; eruditorum examini subjicit Jacobus Hall, Britannus. Ad diem 12 Septembris, hora locoque solitis.
Hall, James, M.D.Date: M,DCC,LXXI. [1771]