An essay on electricity explaining the theory and practice of that useful science, and the mode of applying it to medical purposes ; with, An essay on magnetism / by George Adams.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Adams, George, 1750-1795.

Series:

Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology, and Medicine, Part I.

Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology, and Medicine, Part I

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Electricity--Early works to 1850.

Electricity.

Magnetism--Early works to 1800.

Magnetism.

Physics--Early works to 1800.

Physics.

Medicine--Early works to 1800--Early works to 1800.

Medicine.

Therapeutics--Early works to 1800.

Therapeutics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (lxxxvi, [9]-473, [1] p., [9] leaves of plates (some fold.)) : ill. (some fold.).

Edition:

3rd ed., corr. and considerably enl.

Other Title:

Essay on electricity

Place of Publication:

London : Printed by R. Hindmarsh for the author, and sold by him at Tycho Brahe's Head, 1787.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

An essay on magnetism (p. [375]-454) is an extract from a work never published. Cf. Advertisement (p. [374]).

Pages [469]-473 are A catalogue of mathematical and philosophical instruments, made and sold by George Adams.

Press figures: 4 on p. iiv (i.e. vii), xxxi, xl, l, lxxxii, 126, 138, 184, and others; 6 on p. xvi, xxiii, lx, lxviii, 72, 135, 159, and others; 2 on p. 12, 18, 26, 39, 64, 90, 108, and others; 5 on p. 42, 54, 100, 175, and others.

The title page is engraved.

Advertising: p. [iii-iv], 1st count.

Includes index.

Reproduction of the original from the Huntington Library.

Contains:

Essay on magnetism.

OCLC:

645379769