1764 Electricity Letters by Nollet Ben Franklin Attacks Science Experiments 2v

NOLLET, Jean Antoine

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Jean-Antoine Nollet was an 18th-century French physicist who made incredible contributions to world of physical science. Perhaps his best work came with from his experiments with electricity and his displays of static electricity. In his myriad of letters on electricity, Nollet describes his process and studies with electricity, but his letters on electricity are certainly most famous for attacking Benjamin Franklin’s electricity research. In fact, it is thought that these letters were responsible for separating electricity scientists into ‘Franklinists’ and ‘anti-Franklinists’ (Priestly)

 

This 1764 two-volume edition of Nollet’s “Electricity Letters” contains all of his criticism of Franklin, published in Paris by Guerin and Delatour.

 

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1764 Electricity Letters by Nollet Ben Franklin Attacks Science Experiments 2v

 

Jean-Antoine Nollet was an 18th-century French physicist who made incredible contributions to world of physical science. Perhaps his best work came with from his experiments with electricity and his displays of static electricity. In his myriad of letters on electricity, Nollet describes his process and studies with electricity, but his letters on electricity are certainly most famous for attacking Benjamin Franklin’s electricity research. In fact, it is thought that these letters were responsible for separating electricity scientists into ‘Franklinists’ and ‘anti-Franklinists’ (Priestly)

 

This 1764 two-volume edition of Nollet’s “Electricity Letters” contains all of his criticism of Franklin, published in Paris by Guerin and Delatour.

 

Item number: #20624

Price: $750

 

NOLLET, Jean Antoine

 

Recherches sur les causes particulières des phénoménes électriques; et fur les effects nuifibles ou avantageux qu’on peut en attendre.

 

Paris, Chez H.L. Guerin, & L.F. Delatour, 1764.

 

Details:

  • Collation: Complete with all pages; 2 volumes
    • I – [2], xii, 251, [1]
    • II – [16], 284
    • 8 folding plates throughout
  • References: Joseph Priestley, The History and Present State of Electricity
  • Provenance: Bookplate – Du Musœum de Me. Meliand
  • Language: French
  • Binding: Leather; tight and secure
  • Size: ~6.75in X 4in (17cm x 10cm)

 

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20624

Category

Medicine & Science

Authors

NOLLET, Jean Antoine

Printing Date

18th Century

Language

French

Binding

Leather

Book Condition

Excellent

Collation

Complete