A summary view of the spontaneous electricity of the earth and atmosphere : wherein the causes of lightning and thunder, as well as the constant electrification of the clouds and vapours, suspended in the air, are explained. With some new experiments and observations, tending to illustrate the subject of atmospherical electricity; to which is subjoined the atmospherico-electrical journal, kept during two years, as presented to and published by the Royal society of London
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Type of record: Book
Title: A summary view of the spontaneous electricity of the earth and atmosphere : wherein the causes of lightning and thunder, as well as the constant electrification of the clouds and vapours, suspended in the air, are explained. With some new experiments and observations, tending to illustrate the subject of atmospherical electricity; to which is subjoined the atmospherico-electrical journal, kept during two years, as presented to and published by the Royal society of London
Classmark: Modern History P-8.5/CUR
Creator(s): Read, John (fl.1793)
Publisher: Printed for the author, of whom it may be had; sold by Elmsley [etc.]
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1793
Language: English
Size and medium: [ii], x, [ii], 160 p
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/237229
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991013086679705181
Description
Errata, one leaf, prefixed.
"A meteorological journal, principally relating to atmosperical electricity; kept at Knightsbridge from the 9th of May, 1789, to the 8th of May, 1790...": p. 103-160.
Additional description
Bound [no.3] with: Currie, J.: Letter ... addressed to the Rt. Honble. William Pitt, 1793
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