An Essay to Shew the Cause of Electricity; and Why Some Things are Non-Electricable.

by John Freke

EN·~53 minutes·5 chapters

Chapters

5 total

AN ESSAY TO SHEW THE CAUSE OF ELECTRICITY; AND Why Some Things are Non-Electricable.

0:35

TO MARTIN FOLKES, Esq; PRESIDENT OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY.

0:25

The PREFACE.

3:56

AN ESSAY To Shew From what CAUSES Electricity isProduced, &c.

38:58

APPENDIX.

9:32

Description

The appendix is a reply to the preface of Benjamin Martin's "An essay on electricity ... 1746".

Details

Full title

An Essay to Shew the Cause of Electricity; and Why Some Things are Non-Electricable. In Which Is Also Consider'd Its Influence in the Blasts on Human Bodies, in the Blights on Trees, in the Damps in Mines; And as It May Affect the Sensitive Plant, &c.

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Duration

~53 minutes (51K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

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Produced by The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Release date

2016-06-30

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

Subjects

Electricity -- Early works to 1850 Martin, Benjamin, 1705-1782. Essay on electricity

About the author

John Freke

1688–1756

An early English surgeon and medical teacher, he helped shape surgery into a more distinct profession in 18th-century Britain. He is also remembered for combining practical hospital work with curiosity about science, including experiments on electricity.

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