Experiments and Observations on Electricity

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Experiments and Observations on Electricity is a treatise by Benjamin Franklin based on letters that he wrote to Peter Collinson, who communicated Franklin's ideas to the Royal Society. [1] [2] The letters were published as a book in England in 1751, and over the following years the book was reissued in four more editions containing additional material, the last in 1774. [3] Science historian I. Bernard Cohen crafted an edition with historical commentary that was published in 1941. [1] [3] [4] [5]

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  1. 1 2 Guerlac, Henry (1942). "Review of Benjamin Franklin's Experiments: A New Edition of Franklin's Experiments and Observations on Electricity" . The New England Quarterly. 15 (1): 158–161. doi:10.2307/360244. ISSN   0028-4866. JSTOR   360244.
  2. ↑ Krider, E. Philip (January 2006). "Benjamin Franklin and lightning rods". Physics Today . 59 (1): 42–48. Bibcode:2006PhT....59a..42K. doi: 10.1063/1.2180176 . ISSN   0031-9228. S2CID   110623159.
  3. 1 2 Jorgenson, Chester E. (1942). "Review of Benjamin Franklin's Experiments. A New Edition of Franklin's "Experiments and Observations on electricity."" . American Literature. 14 (2): 184–187. doi:10.2307/2920680. ISSN   0002-9831. JSTOR   2920680.
  4. ↑ Wilson, C. T. R. (1943). "Benjamin Franklin's experiments". Nature . 151 (3833): 430–431. Bibcode:1943Natur.151..430W. doi:10.1038/151430a0. S2CID   38717309.
  5. ↑ Dauben, J. W.; Gleason, M. L.; Smith, G. E. (2009). "Seven Decades of History of Science: I. Bernard Cohen (1914–2003), Second Editor of Isis". Isis . 100 (1): 4–35. doi:10.1086/597575. PMID   19554868. S2CID   31401544.

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