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Experiments and Observations on Electricity

Experiments and Observations on Electricity

Franklin, Benjamin

Paperback

Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Physical Sciences

Sports GeneralGeneral World HistoryPhysics

ISBN10: 1108080162
ISBN13: 9781108080163
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Nov 22 2018
Pages: 552
Weight: 1.76
Height: 1.23 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The political legacy of Benjamin Franklin (1706-90) has tended to overshadow his inventions and scientific discoveries, but this work, of which the 1769 enlarged fourth edition is reissued here, gathers together published and unpublished letters which demonstrate the range of his interests. A large number (many addressed to his friend, the English botanist Peter Collinson) are about experiments with electricity, but (as the subtitle, 'to which are added letters and papers on philosophical subjects', makes clear) others discuss the setting of words to music, the warming of water by pumping, and how the speed of a boat varies with the depth of the water it moves through. The letters (and some replies) show a lively transatlantic group of scientific friends and colleagues describing their experiments, interpreting each others' results, and theorizing on all aspects of the natural world. Franklin's three-volume autobiography is also reissued in the Cambridge Library Collection.

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