'De Artificiali Electricismo ex Beniamini Franklini Theoria' in Sermones Sacri Mariae Thesesiae Augustae

Giovanni Battista Beccaria

Verlag: Petri Pazmanyi, 1768

Beschreibung

This is a very scarce publication, in Latin, containing Giovanni Battista Beccaria's essay dedicated to artificial electricity and the theories of Benjamin Franklin Giovanni Battista Beccaria (1716-1781) Italian physicist, was born at Mondovà , and entered the religious Order of the Pious Schools or Piarists, in 1732, where he studied, and afterward taught, grammar and rhetoric At the same time, he applied himself with success to mathematics He became professor of experimental physics, first at Palermo and then at Rome, and was appointed to a similar position at Turin in 1748 He was afterwards made tutor to the young princes de Chablais and de Carignan, and continued to reside principally at Turin during the remainder of his life In May 1755 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of London, and published several papers on electrical subjects in the Phil Trans In 1759, King Charles Emmanuel III of Sardinia, who had invited him to Turin, employed him to measure the degree of meridian arc in PiedmontHe did much, in the way both of experiment and exposition, to spread a knowledge of the electrical researches of Benjamin Franklin and others His principal work was the treatise Dell' Elettricismo Naturale ed Artificiale (1753), which was translated into English in 1776 This extract is just the Becarria section of the larger work, disbound It shows very light even foxing, and the title is very lightly stained Very good+ [40] pp. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers AA1761

Bibliografische Details

Titel: 'De Artificiali Electricismo ex Beniamini ...

Verlag: Petri Pazmanyi

Erscheinungsdatum: 1768

Zustand: Very Good