NOLLET, (JEAN ANTOINE).

Recherches sur les Causes Particulieres des Phénoménes Électriques, Et sur les effets nuisibles ou avantageux qu'on peut attendre. Nouvelle Edition.

Paris, Guerin & Delatour, 1754. Small 8vo. Cont. full mottled calf. Spine ends worn. Raised bands, richly gilt back. Gilt titlelabel in leather. Back a little rubbed. XXXVI,444 pp. and 8 folded engraved plates. Stamp on title. Internally clean, printed on good paper.

Second edition. "The author lay 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). - Poggendorff II:296.

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