NOLLET (abbé Jean-Antoine).

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NOLLET (abbé Jean-Antoine).
Essay on the electricity of bodies. Third edition. Paris, Guerin et Delatour, 1754, in-12, frontispiece, XXIII-(1)-273-(3) p., full contemporary blond calf, spine ribbed and ornamented (small defects). Illustrated with a frontispiece by Lesueur representing a physics lesson in a scientific cabinet and 4 folding plates on electricity. Third edition, dedicated to the Dauphin. The first one dates from 1746. Nollet (1700-1770), who had been a pupil of Réaumur and collaborator of the scientist du Fay, had opened in Paris a physics cabinet where he practiced his experiments live. The success was prodigious: all the court was pressed there and the experimental physics became a pleasure of amateur and a fashionable entertainment to which Nollet contributed doubly since he manufactured and sold the instruments which allowed the spectators to repeat the experiments in their own cabinet. In this work he exposed his discoveries on electricity and opposed Benjamin Franklin.
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