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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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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

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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

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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.

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Bound [no.3] with: Currie, J.: Letter ... addressed to the Rt. Honble. William Pitt, 1793

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