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Essai sur L'Électricité des Corps. Par M. l’abbé Nollet, de l’Académie royale des sciences, de la Société royale de Londres, de l’Institut de Bologne, maître de physique de M. le Dauphin & professeur Royal de Physique expérimentale. Troisième édition [vignet]
by NOLLET, Abbé Jean-Antoine (1700-1770)
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Paris,: chez H. L. Guérin & L. F. Delatour,, 1754.. xxiv (faux-titre, titre, épître, préface et avis au relieur), 273, [iii, privilège] pp. 12mo (9,5 x 16.5 cm.). Finely bound in contemporary chestnut marbled calf, spine with 5 raised band, in compartment richly gilt tooled with ornamentaL & floral decorations, gilt lettered on red morocco label, gilt ruler along the edges of sides, edges red. - [Reliure de l’époque en basane marbrée de couleur fauve à dos à nerfs orné de caissons et de fleurons dorés, pièce de titre en maroquin grenat, filet d’encadrement à froid sur les plats, tranches rouges]. With an engraved frontispiece by R. Brunet after N. le Sueur and 4 folded engraved plates in very sharp impression. ¶ Last edition of this classic work on electricity, this 1754 imprint is particularly rare. A very fine and attractive copy from a precious provenance; the library of Marie-Caroline de Bourbon Sicile, duchesse de Berry (1798-1870) with her bookplate from the Château de Rosny, « La solitude ». Cat. Wheeler Gift 329a. "… Nollet immediately became the chief of the European electricians, but by 1752 he was under attack by Franklinists led by Buffon: he replied in 'Lettres sur l'éclectricité (1753 …) , capitalizing on Franklin's occasional obscurities and imprecisions, and his argument stimulated the evolution of classical electrostatics. Another achievement was the discovery and clear explanation of osmotic pressure (1848) " (DSB).
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- Essai sur L'Électricité des Corps. Par M. l’abbé Nollet, de l’Académie royale des sciences, de la Société royale de Londres, de l’Institut de Bologne, maître de physique de M. le Dauphin & professeur Royal de Physique expérimentale. Troisième édition [vignet]
- Author
- NOLLET, Abbé Jean-Antoine (1700-1770)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Publisher
- chez H. L. Guérin & L. F. Delatour,
- Place of Publication
- Paris,
- Date Published
- 1754.
- Keywords
- electricity electrotherapy therapeutic electro therapy electriciteit electricite medicale electric stimulation electrophysiology abbe nollet neurophysiology leidsche fles leyden jar duchesse de Berry bibliophile franklin electrostatics
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About Sylco bvba livres anciens - antiquarian books
Fine and rare books in the fields of science, medicine, technology and the applied arts. Old fashioned printed catalogues and lists available on request.A note on binding conservation. All our ancient leather bindings are carefully cleaned with Brecknell's leather soap, and when needed, treated with hydroxypropylcellulose (in the case of dry leather). Finally we protect the leather with \"Cire 213\", the ultimate binding conservation wax developed by the BNF (Bibliothque nationale de France).
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