WEBER, JOSEPH.

Beschreibung des Luftelektrophors. Durch engehängten neuen Erfahrungen, neuen Instrumenten, einem Unterrichte von Zubereitung der brennbaren Luft, und verschiedener Versuche mit derselben. Neueste mit der Beschreibung der elektrischen Lampe vermehrte Auflage.

Augsburg, Kletts sel. Wittwe und Franck, 1779. Contemp. hcalf. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on top of spine. Stamps on title-page. (2),86 pp. and 3 large folded engraved plates. Light scattered browning and some scattered brownspots.

Scarce first edition. "In the early 1770s, while still studying theology, Weber bought an electrival machine from an old-clothes peddler. The purchase showed its value in 1778 when, just after his ordination, he won the prize from the Bavarian Academy of Sciences for an 'air electrophore', an air condenser with a movable coating, whose action he explained in the modern manner, using 'atmosphere' to mean 'sphere of activity'"(J.L. Heilbron).
Poggendorff II, 1271. - Ronalds Library, p. 526.

Order-nr.: 51174