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Nollet, Jean Antoine (1700-1770) Recherches sur les Causes Particulières des Phénoménes Électriques.
Paris: Freres Guerin, 1749.
First edition, 12mo, half-title present, illustrated with seven folding engravings of electrical experiments, bound in full contemporary French mottled calf with gilt-tooled spine, nicely preserved, ex libris Joseph Henry Chave, with his bookplate inside the front board, 6 1/2 x 3 1/2 in.
"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.
