SCIENCE FRANKLIN BENJAMIN Experiments and Observations on E

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FRANKLIN, BENJAMIN. Experiments and Observations on Electricity . . . Fifth Edition. [2], v, [1], 514, [16] pages, including half-title (but with preliminaries bound out of order). 4to, contemporary calf with morocco lettering piece, covers detached; contents toned, opening leaves heavily foxed, heavy offsetting from plates onto facing pages. London: F. Newbery, 1774

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Last and most complete edition of Franklin's major scientific work, "the most important scientific book of eighteenth-century America" (PMM), in which he proved that lightning is electrical and deduced the positive and negative nature of an electrical charge. Dibner, Heralds of Science 57; Grolier/Horblit 31a; Printing and the Mind of Man 199 (all describing the original edition). Ford 318; Roscoe A170(2); Wheeler Gift 367c (this edition).