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Essai sur l'electricité des corps

  • 1746

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Jean-Antoine Nollet (1700-1770) was an 18th-century French experimental physicist known for discovering osmosis in 1748 and conducting foundational research on electricity. This book, published in 1746, features an illustration of his famous demonstration of static electricity, known as the "Electric Boy".

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Nollet, abbé (Jean Antoine). Essai Sur l'Electricité Des Corps. Paris, France, 1746. https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/ub8q81b.

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