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A history of electricity : the intellectual rise in electricity from antiquity to the days of Benjamin Franklin (1898)

Benjamin, Park, 1849-1922 · New York : J. Wiley & Sons · leaf 248

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ered conclusive as to the identityof mao-netic and electric attraction. Yet within a veryfew years it was challenged. On the 24th of September, 1501, there was born inMilan the first of that trio of Italian philosophers whoseachievements in physical science seem all the more bril-liant by contrast… … dan, as his name is commonly Anglicized, belonged to thegeneration immediately preceding theirs; but the threelives overlapped, and much of their work was done con-temporaneously. There is little resemblance to the mer-curial, inquisitive, precocious Porta, still less to the ^ Morley, H.: The Life…

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