Frontispiece to Novi profectus in historia electricitatis

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Frontispiece to Novi profectus in historia electricitatis. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Stephen Gray's 'Flying Boy' experiment. The electrical machine of Chistian August Hausen, 1743. The boy suspended from silk cords is acting as a kind of prime conductor. Fold-out frontispiece to Novi profectus in historia electricitatis, post obitum auctoris ... ex Msto. ejus editi. Praemissa est commentatiuncula de vita et scriptis viri, de solidiori doctrina optime meriti / Christian August Hausen / 1743.

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