Experiments and Observations on Electricity

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Experiments and Observations on Electricity
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Title page of 1751 original publication
AuthorBenjamin Franklin
LanguageEnglish
SubjectElectricity
GenreScientific treatise
PublisherE. Cave
Publication date
1751
Publication placeEngland
Media typePrint
Followed byExpanded editions (1753, 1754, 1769, 1774) 

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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