Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- THE PREFACE
- Contents
- PART I THE HISTORY OF ELECTRICITY
- PART II A SERIES OF PROPOSITIONS, COMPRISING ALL THE GENERAL PROPERTIES OP ELECTRICITY
- PART III THEORIES OF ELECTRICITY
- PART IV DESIDERATA IN THE SCIENCE OF ELECTRICITY, AND HINTS FOR THE FURTHER EXTENSION OF IT
- PART V OF THE CONSTRUCTION OF ELECTRICAL MACHINES, AND THE PRINCIPAL PARTS OF AN ELECTRICAL APPARATUS
- PART VI PRACTICAL MAXIMS FOR THE USE OF YOUNG ELECTRICIANS
- PART VII A DESCRIPTION OF THE MOST ENTERTAINING EXPERIMENTS PERFORMED BY ELECTRICITY
- PART VIII NEW EXPERIMENTS IN ELECTRICITY, MADE IN THE YEAR 1766
- ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS
- A CATALOGUE OF BOOKS WRITTEN ON THE SUBJECT OF ELECTRICITY, EXCLUSIVE OF PAPERS IN BOOKS OF PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS, AND OTHER. MISCELLANEOUS WORKS; DISTINGUISHING [BY ASTERISMS] THOSE WHICH THE AUTHOR HAD SEEN, AND MADE USE OF IN COMPILING THIS WORK
- AN INDEX OF THINGS
- AN INDEX OF NAMES
- Miscellaneous Endmatter
- A short account of a CHART OF BIOGRAPHY
PART VII - A DESCRIPTION OF THE MOST ENTERTAINING EXPERIMENTS PERFORMED BY ELECTRICITY
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 February 2015
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- THE PREFACE
- Contents
- PART I THE HISTORY OF ELECTRICITY
- PART II A SERIES OF PROPOSITIONS, COMPRISING ALL THE GENERAL PROPERTIES OP ELECTRICITY
- PART III THEORIES OF ELECTRICITY
- PART IV DESIDERATA IN THE SCIENCE OF ELECTRICITY, AND HINTS FOR THE FURTHER EXTENSION OF IT
- PART V OF THE CONSTRUCTION OF ELECTRICAL MACHINES, AND THE PRINCIPAL PARTS OF AN ELECTRICAL APPARATUS
- PART VI PRACTICAL MAXIMS FOR THE USE OF YOUNG ELECTRICIANS
- PART VII A DESCRIPTION OF THE MOST ENTERTAINING EXPERIMENTS PERFORMED BY ELECTRICITY
- PART VIII NEW EXPERIMENTS IN ELECTRICITY, MADE IN THE YEAR 1766
- ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS
- A CATALOGUE OF BOOKS WRITTEN ON THE SUBJECT OF ELECTRICITY, EXCLUSIVE OF PAPERS IN BOOKS OF PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS, AND OTHER. MISCELLANEOUS WORKS; DISTINGUISHING [BY ASTERISMS] THOSE WHICH THE AUTHOR HAD SEEN, AND MADE USE OF IN COMPILING THIS WORK
- AN INDEX OF THINGS
- AN INDEX OF NAMES
- Miscellaneous Endmatter
- A short account of a CHART OF BIOGRAPHY
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- The History and Present State of ElectricityWith Original Experiments, pp. 547 - 550Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2013First published in: 1767