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Experiments and observations on electricity, made at Philadelphia in America / by Benjamin Franklin, L.L.D. and F.R.S. : To which are added, letters and papers on philosophical subjects. The whole corrected, methodized, improved, and now first collected into one volume, and illustrated with copper plates.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection QC516 .F852 1769
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Electricity--Early works to 1850.
- Electricity.
- Electricity--Experiments.
- Physics--Early works to 1800.
- Physics.
- Penn Provenance:
- Hamilton, James, 1710-1783 (inscription) (copy 2)
- Hamilton, William, 1745-1813 (bookplate) (copy 2)
- Mitchell, S. Weir (Silas Weir), 1829-1914 (donor) (copy 2)
- Physical Description:
- 2 unnumbered pages, iv pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 496, that is, 508 pages, 16 unnumbered pages, VII leaves of plates (some folded) ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Printed for David Henry; and sold by Francis Newbery, at the Corner of St. Paul's Church Yard, MDCCLXIX. [1769]
- Notes:
- Paging errors: p. 111-112, 416-417, 465-472, repeated.
- Fourth edition of the Experiments and observations--cf. Advertisement, p. [2] (3rd count).
- Plates engraved by T. Jeffreys, B. Cole and J. Hulett.
- "These experiments and discoveries, which have given Franklin such fame, were the work of four men: Franklin, Philip Syng, Thomas Hopkinson and Ebenezer Kinnersley ..."--cf. Ford, P.L. Franklin, p. 41.
- Paging irregular: nos. 111-112, 416-417 and 465-472 repeated.
- Local Notes:
- Copy 1: p. [1]-[2] (3rd count) bound at end.
- Copy 2 imperfect: p. [1]-[2] (half-title) wanting
- Copy 2 has ms. inscription of James Hamilton (1710-1783).
- Copy 2 has bookplate of William Hamilton (1745-1813), reading W. Hamilton
- Cited in:
- Ford, P. L. Franklin 307
- OCLC:
- 3013931
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