14 results filtered with: 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]- Books
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On electricity; with occasional observations on magnetism. Pointing out the inconsistency and fallacy of the doctrine of positive and negative electricity: and investigating and explaining the true principles, composition, and properties of electric atmospheres. By E. Peart, M.D. and corresponding Member of the Medical Society of London.
Peart, E (Edward), 1756?-1824.Date: M.DCC.XCI. [1791]- Books
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Dissertation élémentaire sur la nature de la lumière, de la chaleur, du feu et de l'électricité; ... par M. Carra, ...
Carra, Jean-Louis, 1743-1793.Date: 1787- Books
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Dissertatio medica inauguralis, quaedam de luce, calore, atque vi electrica complectens; quam, annuente summo numine, Ex Auctoritate Reverendi Admodum Viri, D. Georgii Baird, S. S. T. P. Academiae edinburgenae praefecti; necnon Amplissimi Senatus Academici Consensu, Et Nobilissimae Facultatis Medicae Decreto; pro gradu doctoris, summisque in Medicina honoribus ac privilegiis rite Et Legitime consequendis; eruditorum examini subjicit Robertus Robertson, Britannus, Soc. Reg. Med. Edin. Soc. Extraord. Ad diem 12 Septembris, hora locoque solitis.
Robertson, Robert, M.D.Date: MDCCXCVII. [1797]- Books
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Dissertatio medica inauguralis, de electricitate et operatione ejus in morbis curandis. Quam annuente summo numine, ex auctoritate Reverendi admodum Viri, D. Gulielmi Robertson, S.S.T.P. Academiæ Edinburgenæ Præfecti; nec non amplissimi senatus academici consensu, et nobilissimae facultatis medicæ decreto, Pro Gradu Doctoratus, summisque in medicina honoribus ac Privilegiis rite et legitime consequendis; eruditorum examini subjicit Robertus Steavenson, A.M. Britannus. Soc. Med Sod nec non Soc. Phys. Chir. Soc. Hon. Ad diem 24. Junii, hora locoque solitis.
Steavenson, Robert.Date: M,DCC,LXXVIII. [1778]- Books
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Lettre à M. L'Abbé Nollet sur L'électricité
Louis, M. (Antoine), 1723-1792.Date: M.DCC.XLIX. [1749]- Books
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A complete treatise on electricity, in theory and practice; with original experiments. By Tiberius Cavallo, F.R.S. The fourth edition, in three volumes; containing the practice of medical electricity, besides other additions and alterations. The third volume is entirely new, and contains the discoveries and improvements made since the third edition. ...
Cavallo, Tiberius, 1749-1809.Date: 1795- Books
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A dissertation concerning electricity. By J. T. Desaguliers, LL.D. F.R.S. Chaplain to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. To which is Annex'd, A Letter from President Barbot perpetual Secretary of the Academy of Bordeaux, to acquaint him that his Dissertation had won the Prize proposed by that Academy to be given to the Person who should write best upon that Subject.
Desaguliers, J. T. (John Theophilus), 1683-1744.Date: M.DCC.XLII. [1742]- 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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A treatise on electricity: wherein its various phœnomena are accounted for, and the cause of the attraction and gravitation of solids, assigned. To which is Added, A short account, how the electrical effluvia act upon the animal frame, and in what disorders the same may probably be applied with success, and in what not. By Francis Penrose, Surgeon at Bicester.
Penrose, Francis, 1718-1798.Date: MDCCLII. [1752]