Robert Hare, “Objections to the Theories Severally of Franklin, Dufay, and Ampere, with an Effort to Explain Electrical Phenomena, by Statistical, Undulatory, Polarization”. In: Journal of the Franklin Institute, edited by Thomas P. Jones, volume 45, third series, vol 15, 1848; 474pp, 2 plates, pp 188-199 and 264-277. Half-calf, with attractive marbled boards, raised bands, gilt dentelles. Condition: ex-library though faintly, with a ghost of a call slip on the spine bottom, bookplate, and stamps on the title page. The book was very little used. Very solid, crisp, and clean copy. VG $175
From the summary of the concluding half: “The theories of Franklin Du Fay and Ampere are irreconcilable with the premises on which they are founded and with facts on all sides admitted. A charge of frictional electricity or that species of electric excitement which is produced by friction is not due to any accumulation nor to any deficiency either of one or of two fluids but to the opposite polarities induced in imponderable ethereal matter existing throughout space however otherwise void and likewise condensed more or less within ponderable bodies so as to enter into combination with their particles forming atoms which may be designated as ethereo ponderable.”
Also included:
“A Description of Col. Long's Composite Bridge...” pp 202-206, with a plate and pp 258-264.
Staite, “New Mode of Lighting by Electricity”, pp 445-6;
Faraday, Michael. “On the Use of Gutta Percha in Electrical insulation”, pp 446-8;
“On the Theory of Dew” (translated elements of two papers from Melloni and Arago from October 1847), pp 52-60.
...and numerous other papers.
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