Francis Hauksbee - Esperienze Fisico-meccaniche Sopra Vari Soggetti Contenenti un Racconto di Diversi Stupendi Fenomeni Intorno la Luce e L'elettricità...

<p>Prima edizione italiana, e prima traduzione dall'inglese, di &laquo;one of the most important early works on electricity, containing a description of the electrical machine with a glass cylinder (invented by Hauksbee), descriptions and illustrations of an improved air-pump of his invention, founded on his discovery of the lateral communication of motion in air and important for first showing the optical effects produced by the passage of electricity through rarefied air, which formed the starting point of modern researches, X-rays and the constitution of the atom&raquo; (<span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Duveen </span>281-82). Cfr. anche <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Dibner</span>, <em>Early Elect. Mach</em>., 16-19: &laquo;Contained many 'first', particularly the relationship between light and electricity&raquo;; <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Mottelay</span>, 149-150; <em>Catalogue of Wheeler Gift</em> 232 (ed. orig. 1709):&nbsp;&laquo;Important contribution to the study of electric phenomena&raquo;.</p>