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Experiences et Observations sur l'Électricité faites a Philadelphie en Amérique par M. Benjamin Franklin; & communiquées dans plusieurs Lettres à M. P. Collinson, de la Société Royale de Londres. Traduites de l'anglais. Seconde Edition. Revûe, corrigée & augmentée d'un supplément considérable du même Auteur, avec des Notes & des Expériences nouvelles. Par M. d'Alibard. Tomes Premier & Second. A Paris; Chez Durand, ruë du Foin, au Griffon. 1756, Avec Approbation & Privilège du Roi, 245 pp, 349 pp, 6.5 x 4", 12mos. In poor condition. As is. Both volumes' front boards are detached along with preliminary pages and title pages. Leather boards are scuffed at edges & worn/bumped at corners. Heads of spines lacking - bindings exposed. Tails of spines moderately scuffed & split at rear hinges. Title label on Vol. II lacking. Vol. I's title label dulled, but still legible. Gilt deco (including flowers) on both spines are moderately soiled, and hard to decipher. All edges of both volumes marbled. Marbled end-papers clean and bright. Marginalia found, in ink, at top of both title pages. Toning and foxing throughout text-blocks. No known marginalia. Bindings are fragile. Perfect candidate for restoration. Please see photos and ask questions, if any, before purchasing. Thomas-François Dalibard ([D'Alibard] 1709-1778) - the translator of this work- was a French physicist who performed the first lightening rod experiment. Dalibard first met Benjamin Franklin (1705-1790) in 1767 during one of Franklin's visits to France, and it is said they became friends. In 1750, Franklin published a proposal for an experiment to determine if lightning was electricity. He proposed extending a conductor into a cloud that appeared to have the potential to become a thunderstorm. If electricity existed in the cloud, the conductor could be used to extract it. Dalibard, who at the suggestion of Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707-1788), translated Franklin's Experiments and Observations in Electricity into French, & performed Franklin's proposed experiment using a 40-foot-tall metal rod at Marly-la-Ville in 1752. It is said that Dalibard used wine bottles to ground the pole, and he successfully extracted electricity from a low cloud. It is not known whether Benjamin Franklin, himself, performed his proposed experiment. This is a two volume, second edition, complete work in French of Benjamin Frankin's Experiments and Observations in Electricity translated by Dalibard. RAREF1756LOQL - 01/24 - HK1071 FORN-SHELF-0467-BB-2410-HKREV221. N° de ref. del artículo RAREF1756LOQL
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