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 395
infernal toys, and heaven might serve him worse nexttime for tampering with the spirits of the air, which heshut up and tortured in his tubes and globes.^ But the Burgomaster knew his Magdeburgers and theyhim, and there was little danger that the fellow-officialswith whom he dined and smoked and… … OTTO VON GUERICKE. 389 of Brandenburg, and he had other titles bespeaking greatconsideration. But, at the present time, a couple of cen-turies later, the moths have eaten all these dignities andwe know Otto von Guericke best as one of the first andgreatest of the electrical discoverers. Now, we…
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