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Some New Electrical Experiments by John Canton - 1754

Some New Electrical Experiments by John Canton - 1754

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  • Science: Experimentation
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  • Condition: The pages are tanned, but the text is clear and easily read.
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    Description

    Read before the Royal Society on November 14, 1754,
    A Letter to the Right Honourable the Earl of Macclesfield, President of the Royal Society, concerning some new electrical Experiments, by John Canton, M.A. and F.R.S.
    discussed experiments that studied the positively and negatively charged aspects of electricity.
    The item is a First Edition, extracted and disbound from The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Vol. 48, For the Year 1753, pages 780-785, plus two extended plates. This volume of the transactions was published in London in 1754.
    John Canton
    FRS (31 July 1718 – 22 March 1772) was an English physicist. In 1750 he read a paper before the Royal Society on a method of making artificial magnets, which procured him election as a fellow of the society and the award of the Copley Medal. He was the first in England to verify Benjamin Franklin's hypothesis of the identity of lightning and electricity, and he made several important electrical discoveries. [Wikipedia]
    Thomas Parker,
    3rd Earl of Macclesfield FRS (12 October 1723 – 9 February 1795), styled Viscount Parker between 1732 and 1764, was a British peer and politician.. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in November 1747. [Wikipedia]