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![e Electricity and Magnetism— continued. paper is entitled ‘‘Sur les Phénoménes Electro- Capillaires.’”” The paper is of interest in con- nection with electric endosmosis. 505aBecquerel (Antoine César) Elements d’Electro-Chimie appliquée aux sciences naturelles et aux arts. Deuxiéme édition, entiérement refondue. Paris, 1864 25s 8vo. Cloth. 626 pp. Important work by Becquerel, usually regarded as the founder of electro-chemistry. 506 Bennet (A.) New Experiments on elec- tricity wherein the causes of thunder and lightning as well as the constant state of positive and negative electricity in the air or clouds are explained . . . also a description of a doubler of electricity and of the most sensible electrometer yet constructed. Derby, John Drewry, 1789 £2 2s 8vo. Half calf. 3 11., 141 pp. 4 folding plates. A rare book on atmospheric electricity. Wheeler Gift Cat, 552. 507 Bertholon (Abbé) De 1’électricité des Météores. Paris, 1787 30s 8vo. Contemporary calf. 2 vols. With 6 plates. Wheeler Gift Cat. 539. 508 Bertholon (Abbé) De JUelectricité du Corps Humain dans l’état de Santé et de Maladie. Paris, 1786 - 30s 8vo. Old calf. 2 vols. Wheeler Gift Cat. 533. 509 Bireh (John) An Essay on the Medical Application of Electricity. London, 1803 25s 8vo. Unbound. 4+57 pp. The Wheeler Gift Catalogue only lists an edition dated 1802. 510 Brook (A.) Miscellaneous Experiments and Remarks on Electricity, the Air-Pump and the Barometer, with a description of an electrometer of a new construction. Norwich, 1789 £2 10s 4to. Original boards, rebacked. With 2 plates. Wheeler Gift Cat. 553. Sil Bywater (John) An Essay on the History, Practice and Theory of Electricity. London, 1810 £1 15s 8vo. Original boards, uncut, new back. Wheeler Gift Cat. No. 701. 5l1aGarpue (J. C.) An Introduction to Elec- tricity and Galvanism, with cases showing their effects in the cure of diseases, to which is added a description of Mr. Cuthbertson’s Plate Electrical Machine. London, 1803 £2 10s 8vo. Original boards, uncut. 112 pp. With three engraved plates. The author is the well- known surgeon who wrote the book on rhinoplasty Wheeler Gift Cat. 646. 512 Cavallo (Tiberius) An Essay on the Theory and Practice of Medical Electricity. London, For the author, 1781 £2 10s _8vo. New boards. 16+112 pp. 1 plate. First edition of the first scientific work on the subject. With inscription ‘‘ From the author ’”’ written on half-title. 513 Gavailo (Tiberius) A Treatise on Magnet- ism, in Theory and Practice, with original experiments. London, 1787 35s 8vo, Old calf. With the two engraved plates. Wheeler Gift Cat. 540. CABLE ADDRESS: 43. 514 Clerk Maxwell (James) A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1873 £3 35 8vo. Original cloth. 2 vols. With woodcuts, diagrams and 20 plates. First edition of one of the great classics in the history of physics. It describes the author’s electro-magnetic theory of light, on which Herz formed his analysis leading to the discovery of wireless communication. 515 Crompton (Rk. E.) The Electric Light for Industrial Uses. London, f[ca. 1880] 12s 6d 8vo, Wrappers, a little soiled. 41 pp. An early pamphlet on the electric light by one of its pioneers. Wheeler Gift Cat. 2189. 516 Guthbertson (John) Practical Electricity and Galvanism, containing a series of experiments. London, 1807 30s 8vo. Old calf, rebacked. With 9 folding plates. First Eprtion. Wheeler Gift Cat. 681. 517 Gyon (Dr. E.) Principes d’Electro- thérapie. Paris, Bailliére et Fils, 1873 10s 6d 8vo. Half calf. Woodcuts in text. Not in the Wheeler Gift Cat, _ i fs ie 518 [Dalance (Joachim) Traité de l’aiman divisé en deux parties. La premiere con- tient les expériences et la seconde les raisons que l’on peut rendre par M.D. Amsterdam, Henricus Wetstein, 1687 £2 2s 12mo. Old calf. 9 1l., 140 pp., 4 Il. Engraved frontispiece and 33 copperplates with very curious. and interesting illustrations. First Epition. A general book on the magnet with chapters on the invention of the compass, the compass needle in a magnetic field, magnetic mountains of America, etc., etc. : The book is notable for its illustrations. Wheeler Gift Cat. 200. 519 Delaunay (Claude Veau) Manuel de l’électricité. Paris, Chez auteur, 1809 25s 8vo. Half calf... 4 ll, 80, 272 pp. 13 folding plates, : The book contains a good exposition of static electricity. It has an essay on the history of the subject at the beginning and a bibliography at. the end. There are references to Franklin in the chapter on lightning conductors (pp. 191). Wheeler Gift Catalogue, No. 695. No copy in the Ronalds library. ; E 520 Daniel (John Frederic) On Voltaic addressed to Combinations. In a letter Michael Faraday, in Philosophical Trans- actions. 1836 21s 4to. Cloth. The first appearance of the descrip- tion of Daniel’s cell, the first practical constant cell (zinc and copper). This volume also contains. papers by Thomas Stephen Davies on Terrestrial Magnetism, Daubeny on the action of Light upon Plants and Plants upon the Atmosphere, by Sir D. Brewster and others. : 521 Faraday (Michael) Experimental Re- searches in Electricity. Reprinted from the Philosophical Transactions of 1831- 1838. London, Richard and John Edward Taylor, 1839-1855 £7 10s 8vo. Original green cloth, gilt lettering on back. 8 vols. With 17 plates. Faraday’s most important work. It contains. his discoveries of induced electricity (‘‘ Faradic current’’), the electrotonic state of matter, identity of electricity from. different sources, Rare. equivalents in electro-chemical decomposition, electrostatic induction, hydro-electricity, dia- magnetism, relation of gravity to electricity,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33155483_0043.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
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