April 12, 2024
1752 Gentleman's Magazine Ben Franklin Hypothesis of Electricity,colored plate
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Double your traffic. ORIGINAL monthly news magazine, the Gentleman's Magazine (London, ENGLAND) dated June, 1752.This is missing the fold out plate of Venice bust still makes interesting readingThe highlight of this June 1752 issue of Gentleman's Magazine are three letters/articles on Ben Franklin's lightning rod hypothesis and it confirmation by French experiments; 1) Peter Collinson, Ben Franklin's regular correspondent and Fellow of the Royal Society comments upon cross on top of French cathedral, hit by lightning and the natives observations about safety from lighting 2) a Letter from a Gentleman in Paris conceding he was wrong about Franklin's conclusions and 3) a report of electrical experiment performed by the King's physician for French KingIncludes the followingthe new experiments on electricity made at Philadelphia by Benjamin Franklin - the analogy of the electric matter with that of thunder - and the amazing demonstrations in France by Dalibard to prove Franklin's theorya treatise on the Nightingale Bird - with lovely full page engraving, and second article - the construction of a trap for taking Nightingales and the manner of setting it - with 2 illustrationsORIGINALLY BOUND AS PART OF A VOLUME ISSUE OTHERWISE COMPLETE SOME REMAINS OF BINDING ON SPINE BUT A TIGHT EXAMPLE,
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