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Observations upon lightning, and the method of securing buildings from it's effects, in a letter to Sir Charles Frederick, &c.&c.&c. by B. Wilson, F.R.S. and Ac. Reg. Up. Soc. and others.
Wilson, Benjamin, 1721-1788.Date: MDCCLXXIII. [1773]- Books
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Observations upon lightning, and the method of securing buildings from its effects. In a letter to Sir Charles Frederick, &c. &c. &c / by B. Wilson ... and others.
Wilson, Benjamin, 1721-1788.Date: 1773- Books
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An essay on the weather; with remarks on The shepherd of Banbury's rules for judging of it's changes; and directions for preserving lives and buildings from the fatal effects of lightening. Intended chiefly for the use of husbandmen. By John Mills, Esq. F. R. S. Honorary Member of the Dublin Society, of the Royal Societies of Agriculture of Paris and Rouen, of the Oeconomical Society of Berne, and of the Palatine Academy of Sciences and Belles-Lettres.
Mills, John, -1784?.Date: MDCCLXXIII. [1773]- Books
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New experiments on electricity, wherein the causes of thunder and lightning as well as the constant state of positive or negative electricity in the air or clouds, are explained; with Experiments on Clouds of Powders and Vapours Artificially Diffused in the Air. Also a Description of a Doubler of Electricity, and of the Most Sensible Electrometer Yet Constructed. With Other New Experiments and Discoveries in the Science. illustrated by explanatory plates. By the Rev. A. Bennet, F. R. S. Curate of Wirksworth, Derbyshire.
Bennet, Abraham, F.R.S., Curate of Wirksworth.Date: M,DCC,LXXXIX. [1789]- Books
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The newest, best, and very-much esteemed book of knowledge. Being very necessary and useful for the instruction and benefit of all persons. Shewing the effects of the planets and other astronomical constellations; with the strange events that happen to men, women, and children, born under them. Together with the husbandman's practice: or, pregnostication for ever. And the shepherd's perpetual calendar for the weather. Also a brief discourse of the natural causes of meteors; with an account of several remarkable earthquakes, rains, thunders, thunder-bolts, lightnings, comets, blazing-stars, &c. And observations on the weather, and signs foretelling rain. - a brief collection of all the members of man physiognomiz'd. - Signification of moles on man or woman. - Interpretation of dreams. - And Pythagoras's wheel of fortune. With a particular account of the earth and sea: and a description of the most magnificent Temple of Solomon: also of the seven wonders of the world.
Date: 1764