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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