Physics:Experiments and Observations on Electricity

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Experiments and Observations on Electricity
Title page of 1751 original publication
AuthorBenjamin Franklin
CountryEngland
LanguageEnglish
SubjectElectricity
GenreScientific treatise
PublisherE. Cave
Publication date
1751
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]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 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. https://www.jstor.org/stable/360244. 
  2. ↑ Krider, E. Philip (January 2006). "Benjamin Franklin and lightning rods" (in en). Physics Today 59 (1): 42–48. doi:10.1063/1.2180176. ISSN 0031-9228. Bibcode: 2006PhT....59a..42K. 
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 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. https://www.jstor.org/stable/2920680. 
  4. ↑ Wilson, C. T. R. (1943). "Benjamin Franklin's experiments". Nature 151 (3833): 430–431. doi:10.1038/151430a0. Bibcode: 1943Natur.151..430W. 
  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. 

Further reading

  • "Experiments and Observations, [April 1751"]. National Archives. https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-04-02-0039.  Original source: Labaree, Leonard W., ed (1961). The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, vol. 4, July 1, 1750, through June 30, 1753. Yale University Press. pp. 125–130. 
  • Watson, William (1751). "An Account of Mr. Benjamin Franklin's Treatise, Lately Published, Intituled, Experiments and Observations on Electricity, Made at Philadelphia in America; By Wm. Watson, F. R. S.". Philosophical Transactions 47: 202–211. 



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