Farther Experiments in Electricity

The paper describes further experiments that the author has performed to obtain more characteristics of electricity, including resistance of materials, positive and negative charge, and the like.

The item, first read before the Royal Society on November 13, 1760, is a First Edition, extracted and disbound from The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Vol. 51, For the Years 1759 & 1760, pages 896-906. This volume was published in 1761. The pages of the paper are tanned, but the text is clear and easily read. The item is in good condition.

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Benjamin Wilson (June 21, 1721 – June 6, 1788) was an English painter, printmaker and scientist (natural philosopher). As a scientist he opposed Benjamin Franklin's theory of positive and negative electricity. Instead, Wilson supported Isaac Newton's gravitational-optical ether, which he supposed to differ in density around bodies in accordance with their degrees of electrification. Wilson also opposed Franklin's theory of pointed lightning rods, holding that blunt conductors performed better than pointed ones. [Wikipedia]