[Rarebooks] FS: Early work on electricity by Abbe Nollet. Paris: 1754

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(SCIENCE) Nollet, Jean Antoine. RECHERCHES SUR LES CAUSES PARTICULIERES
DES PHENOMENES ELECTRIQUES, et sur les Effets Nuisibles ou Avantageux
Qu'on Peut en Attendre. Nouvelle Edition. Paris: Chez H. L. Guerin & L.
F. Delatour. 1754. Sm. 8vo. xxxvi,444pp. With the half-title.
Illustrated with all 8 copper engraved folding plates. Cont. mottled
calf, elaborately gilt decorated spine with red calf label. Outer
hinges cracked but holding soundly. $450.00
Also known as Abbe Nollet (1700-1770), the author was a French
clergyman and physicist who invented the electroscope (a device for
detecting electrical charges).

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