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An Essay on Electricity, explaining the Principles of that Useful Science; and describing the Instruments, contrived either to illustrate the theory, or render the practice entertaining...to which is added A Letter to the Author, from Mr. John Birch, Surgeon, on the subject of Medical Electricity
by Adams, George
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- Contemporary mottled calf sympathetically rebacked. Some neat repairs to plates, but a clean copy
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At the back of this volume is "A Catalogue of Optical, Mathematical, and Philosophical Instruments made and sold by W. and S. Jones" (14 pages) followed by a two-page notice of W. and S. Jones having taken over the stock of Mr. George Adams' "Philosophical Essays" after Adams' death in 1795.
John Birch, whose letter on medical electricity accompanies this edition, was a surgeon, and the author of "Della Forza dell'Elettricita" (Naples, 1778).
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- James Cummins Bookseller
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- Title
- An Essay on Electricity, explaining the Principles of that Useful Science; and describing the Instruments, contrived either to illustrate the theory, or render the practice entertaining...to which is added A Letter to the Author, from Mr. John Birch, Surgeon, on the subject of Medical Electricity
- Author
- Adams, George
- Format/Binding
- Engraved folding frontispiece and five folding plates of instruments at back. xiv, 594, 14, 2 pp. 8vo
- Book Condition
- Used - Contemporary mottled calf sympathetically rebacked. Some neat repairs to plates, but a clean copy
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Fifth edition, with corrections and additions by William Jones
- Publisher
- J Dillon and Co
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1799
- Keywords
- Electricity
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