NOLLET, J.A. (JEAN ANTOINE).

Versuch einer Abhandlung von der Electricität der Cörper. Aus dem Französischen in das Teutsche übersetzt, und mit einigen Briefen des gelehrten Verfassers über die Materie vermehret. Mit Kupffern.

Erfurt, Joh. Friedr. Weber, 1749. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on top of spine. Stamps on front free endpaper. 270,(50) pp. With old underlinings throughout.

Scarce first German edition of Nollet's first book on electricity, his "Essai sur l'électricité des corps", 1746. It is one of the earliest detailed treatises on electricity. He here developed a theory of electrical attraction and repulsion that supposed the existence of a continuous flow of elctrical matter between charged bodies. Nollet’s theory at first gained wide acceptance, but met its nemesis in 1752 with the publication of the French translation of Franklin’s "Experiments and Observations on Electricity".
Poggendorff II, 296.

Order-nr.: 51154