Oct 20, 2009 - Sale 2190

Sale 2190 - Lot 153

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NOLLET, JEAN-ANTOINE. Recherches sur les Causes Particulières des Phénomènes Électriques. 8 folding engraved plates depicting electrical experiments (offsetting onto facing pages). xxxvi, 444 pages, including engraved frontispiece. 12mo, contemporary mottled calf gilt, front joint cracked, cords intact; scattered foxing. Paris: Frères Guérin, 1749
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first edition. "The author lays down a theory, according to which the cause of electrical phenomena is the 'effluence and affluence' of a subtile fluid which is everywhere present. Some interesting experiments are described with vacuum tubes also on the influence of electric charges on the growth of plants"--Wheeler Gift 355.