Physics:Experiments and Observations on Electricity

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Title page of 1751 original publication

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. http://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.2180176. 
  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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