Experiments And Observations Tending To Illustrate The Nature And Properties Of Electricity. In one Letter to Martin Folkes, Esq; President, and Two to the Royal Society.
Published by London: Printed for C.Davis, 1746., 1746
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8vo. pp. 1 p.l., viii, 3-59. interleaved throughout. a few old ms. corrections in the text. modern bds. (small wormholes through upper blank margin, edges of first leaves chipped). First Edition. An important work by one of the most distinguished figures of this period in the history of electricity, who was described by Priestley as "the most interested and active person in the kingdom in everything relating to [the subject]". Watson, British physician and naturalist, contributed to the ‘Philosophical Transactions’ during the course of his lifetime more than fifty-eight original papers on electricity, natural history and medicine, many of which are of considerable importance. In 1745 he was awarded the Copley Medal of the Royal Society for his electrical research. Watson was the first to observe the flash of light from the discharge of a Leyden jar, as well as providing the first demonstration of the passage of electricity through a vacuum, and the plus and minus of electricity. The present work contains Watson’s first papers on electricity, originally communicated to the Royal Society in 1745 and 1746, including accounts of his experiments relating to the ignition of warm spirits by electrical sparks, and his discovery that although ice as well as water is an ‘electric’ or ‘non-conductor’, moist air conducts, thereby explaining the failure of electrical experiments in wet weather. Sotheran 15472. cfWheeler Gift Cat. 333 (3rd Edn.: 1746).…
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- Title
- Experiments And Observations Tending To Illustrate The Nature And Properties Of Electricity. In one Letter to Martin Folkes, Esq; President, and Two to the Royal Society.
- Author
- WATSON, Sir William [1715-1787].
- Publisher
- London: Printed for C.Davis, 1746.
- Publication year
- 1746
- Edition
- 1st Edition
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