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Faria e Aragao, Francisco de, 1726-1806.
Breve compendio ou tratado sobre a electricidade, composto pelo Francisco de Faria e Aragao. Lisboa, na typographia chalcographica e litteraria do arco do cego, 1800.
[6], 127, [1] p. 2 fold. plates. 19.6 cm.
Provenance: Bibliotecas des Ma----- Real (ink stamp)
In Ronalds.
Faure, Giovanni Battista, 1702-1779.
Conghietture fisiche intorno alle cagioni de' fenomeni osservati in Roma nella macchina elettrica, da Giambattista Faure. Roma, Presso il Bernabo e Lazzarini, 1747.
xii, 140, [1] p. 24.2 cm.
Provenance: Bibliothecae Petri Buoninsegni Senis MDCCCII (bookplate) copy 2; Bibliothecae S. Petri ad Vincula.
In Ronalds, Wheeler 339, Gartrell 159.
Feijóo y Montenegro, Benito Jerónimo, 1676-1764.
Nuevo systhema, sobre la causa physica de los terremotos, explicado por los phenomenos electricos, y adaptado al que padeciò España en primero de Noviembre del ano antecedente de 1755, su autor Benito Geronymo Feyjoo. Lisboa, J. Da Costa Coimbra, 1756.
[43], 56 p. 20.9 cm.
Theorizes that earthquakes are caused by subterranean electricity.
Felkel, Anton, 1740-
Wahre Beschaffenheit des Donners. Eine ganz neue Entdeckung durch einen Liebhaber der Naturkunde. Wien, Ghelen, 1779.
24 p. illus. 17.8 cm.
Bound with Stadlhofer, J.N. Ueber die tödliche Wirkungsart des Blitzes. Dresden, 1791.
Ferguson, James, 1710-1776.
An introduction to electricity. In six sections, by James Ferguson. London, Printed for W. Strahan, and T. Cadell, 1770.
[4], 140 p. 3 fold. plates. 20 cm.
Provenance: From the books of E. N. da C. Andrade (bookplate); W: Cross, 1772 (inscription)
In Ronalds, Wheeler 429, Gartrell 162.
Covers all of electricity, including directions for electrical experiments and details of electrotherapeutics with accompanying case histories.
Ferguson, James, 1710-1776.
An introduction to electricity. In six sections. 2nd ed., by James Ferguson. London, Printed for W. Strahan, and T. Cadell, 1775.
[4], 140 p. 3 fold. plates. 21.4 cm.
In Ronalds, Wheeler 429a.
Ferguson, James, 1710-1776.
An introduction to electricity. In six sections. 3rd ed., by James Ferguson. London, Printed for W. Strahan, and T. Cadell, 1778.
[4], 140 p. 3 fold. plates. 21.5 cm.
Provenance: Dr. James Jones, Mountain Hall (bookplate)
In Ronalds, Wheeler 429b, Gartrell 163.
Ferguson, James, 1710-1776.
Introduzione alla elettricità, de Giacomo Ferguson. Traduzione dall' Inglese. Firenze, G. Cambiagi, 1778.
[6], 144 p. 3 fold. plates. 20.4 cm.
Provenance: Di Domenico Marchi (inscription)
In Ronalds.
Fermin, Philippe, 1720-1790.
Description générale, historique, géographique et physique de la colonie de Surinam, contenant ce qu'il y a de plus curieux & de plus remarquable, touchant sa situation, ses rivieres, ses fortresses; son gouvernement & sa police; avec les moeurs & les usages des habitants naturels du païs, & des Européens qui y sont Çtablis; ainsi que des Çclaircissements sur l'oeconomie gÇnÇrale des esclaves negres, sur les plantations & leurs produit, les arbres fruitiers, les plantes médécinales, & toutes les diverses especes d'animaux qu'on y trouve, &c, par Philippe Fermin. Amsterdam, E. van Harrevelt, 1769.
2 v. fold. map, 3 fold. plates. 20 cm.
Describes experiments with a torpedo.
Fille, Fenicio A.
[Fenicio A. Fille] Dell' unisono, sermone. Del sogno, capitoli. Dell' elettricismo e della generazione, dialogo. Lucca, G. Riccomini, 1766.
32, 55, 107, [1] p. 22.4 cm.
Fleet, John, 1766-1813.
A discourse relative to the subject of animation, delivered before the Humane society of the commonwealth of Massachusetts, at their semi-annual meeting June 13th, 1797, by John Fleet, jun. Boston, Printed by J. & T. Fleet, 1797.
25 p. 21.3 cm.
Provenance: Haverhill Public Library Founded 1874 (bookplate)
Refers to the use of electrical stimulation in the resuscitation of drowned persons.
Flemyng, Malcolm, d.1764.
Neuropathia; sive, De morbis hypochondriacis, et hystericis, libri tres, poema medicum. Cui praemittitur dissertatio epistolaris prosaica ejusdem argumenti. Autore Milcolumbo Flemyng. Eboraci, Excudebant C. Ward et R. Chandler, sumptibus autoris, 1740.
[3] l., lxxiv p., [1] l., 73, [1] p. 20.5 cm.
Versified discussion of the nervous system and its hysterical and hypochondriacal disorders.
Il fluido elettrico applicato a spiegare i fenomeni della natura. Roma, Presso L. Capponi, 1771.
viii, 63 p. illus. 18.2 cm.
Explains poetically the role of the electric fluid in natural science.
Follini, Giorgio, 1756-1851.
Teoria elettrica brevemente esposta ad uso della studiosa gioventu', dal Giorgio Follini. Ivrea, Dalla Stamperia di L. Franco, 1791.
164, [4] p. 2 fold. plates. 19 cm.
In Ronalds, Gartrell 167.
Fontana, Felice, 1730-1805.
Abhandlung über das Viperngift, die Amerikanischen Gifte, das Kirschlorbeergift und einige andere Pflanzengifte, nebst einigen Beobachtungen Åber den ursprünglichen Bau des thierischen Körpers, über die Wiedererzeugung der Nerven und der Beschreibung eines neuen Augenkanals. Aus dem Franzîsischen übersetzt. Berlin, C.F. Himburg, 1787.
2 v. in 1 (xiv, 500, [1] p.) 10 fold. plates. 24.1 cm.
Provenance: Fr. C. C. Hansen Kjobehavn (inscription)
Fontana, Felice, 1730-1805.
Ricerche filosofiche sopra la fisica animale, di Felice Fontana. Tomo I. Firenze, G. Cambiagi, 1775.
xxxvi, 192 p. 24.8 cm.
Fontana, Felice, 1730-1805.
Ricerche fisiche sopra il veleno della vipera, di Felice Fontana. Lucca, Nella Stamperìa di J. Giusti, 1767.
xiv, [1] p., 170 p. 24.2 cm.
Provenance: Ex dono auctoris (inscription)
Fontana, Felice, 1730-1805.
Traité sur le vénin de la vipere, sur les poisons americains, sur le laurier-cerise et sur quelques autres poisons vÇgetaux. On y a joint des observations sur la structure primitive du corps animal. DiffÇrentes expÇriences sur la reproduction des nerfs et la description d'un nouveau canal de l'oeil, par Felix Fontana. Florence, 1781. 2 v. in 1. 10 fold. plates. 26.6 cm.
Provenance: College of Physicians (ink stamp); Coll. Reg. Med. Lond. (bookplate); Royal College of Physicians Withdrawn from Library (ink stamp)
Fontana, Felice, 1730-1805.
Treatise on the venom of the viper; on the American poisons; and on the cherry laurel, and some other vegetable poisons. To which are annexed, observations on the primitive structure of the animal body; different experiments on the reproduction of the nerves; and a description of a new canal of the eye. Tr. from the original French of Felix Fontana, by Joseph Skinner. London, Printed for J. Murray, 1787.
2 v. 10 fold. plates. 21.4 cm.
Fontenelle, Bernard le Bovier de, 1657-1757.
Histoire du renouvellement de l'Academie royale des sciences en MDCXCIX et les eloges historiques de tous les academiciens morts depuis ce renouvellement: avec un discours préliminaire sur l'utilité des mathematiques & de la physique, par De Fontenelle. Amsterdam, Chez P. de Coup, 1709-20.
2 v. front. 17.8 cm.
Fothergill, John, 1712-1780.
Remarks on that complaint commonly known under the name of the sick head-ache, by John Fothergill. [n.p.] 1778.
103-137 p. 20.3 cm.
Extract from Medical Observations and Inquiries.
[Fothergill, John] 1712-1780.
Some account of the late Peter Collinson, Fellow of the Royal Society, and of the Society of Antiquaries in London, and of the Royal Societies of Berlin and Upsal. In a letter to a friend. London, 1770.
18 p. port. 29 cm.
Fothergill, John, 1712-1780.
The works of John Fothergill, with some account of his life, by John Coakley Lettsom. London, Printed for C. Dilly, 1784.
[8], xcv, 657 p. 6 plates, 3 ports. 28.6 cm.
Provenance: Boston Athenaeum (ink stamp)
Fourcroy, Antoine Francois de, comte, 1755-1809.
Système des connaissances chimiques, et de leurs applications aux phénomènes de la nature et de l'art, par A.F. Fourcroy. Paris, Baudouin, An IX-X [1800-1802] 11 v. 21.6 cm.
[Fournel, Jean François] 1745-1820.
Essai sur les probabilités du somnambulisme magnétique. Pour servir à l'histoire du magnétisme animal, par M. F***. Amsterdam, 1785.
[1], 70 p. 22.5 cm.
[Fournel, Jean François] 1745-1820.
Remontrances des malades aux médecins de la faculté de Paris. Amsterdam, 1785.
[1], 74 p. 20 cm.
Bound with Servan, J.M.A. Questions du jeune docteur Rhubarbini de Purgandis. Padoue, 1784.
Fowler, Richard, 1765-1863.
Experiments and observations relative to the influence lately discovered by M. Galvani, and commonly called animal electricity, by Richard Fowler. Edinburgh, Printed for T. Duncan [etc.] 1793.
[1], iii, 176 p. 21.8 cm.
In Ronalds, Wheeler 583, Gartrell 169.
Suggests that movements attributed to animal electricity were produced by chemical stimuli.
France. Commission chargée de l'examen du magnétisme animal.
Rapport des commissaires chargés par le roi, de l'examen du magnétisme animal. Imprimé par ordre du roi. Paris, Impr. Royale, 1784.
[1], 66 p. 24.8 cm.
With this is bound Bailly, J.S. Exposé des experiences. Paris, 1784; Académie Nationale de Médecine, Paris. Rapport. Paris, 1784; and Mesmer, F.A. Lettre. Paris, 1784.
France. Commission chargée de l'examen du magnétisme animal.
Report of Dr. Benjamin Franklin and other commissioners, charged by the King of France, with the examination of the animal magnetism, as now practised at Paris. Trans. from the French. With an historical introd. London, Printed for J. Johnson, 1785.
xx, 108 p. 19.8 cm.
France. Commission chargée de l'examen du magnétisme animal.
Verhandelingen over het dierlijk magnetismus, door de heeren B. Franklin, Majault, Le Roy, Sallin, Bailly, D'arcet, De Bory, Guillotin, Lavoisier. -- Geoffroy, Desperrieres, Jeanroi, Defourcroy, Chambon en Vicq D'Azyr. Leeden van de Koninglijke Academie der weetenschappen, en faculteit der geneeskunde te parys, en door den koning gecommitteerd tot het onderzoek weggens deeze zoo belangrijke zaak. Vervattende zoo wel de wijze van meededeeling van het magnetismus, als de uitwerkzelen, welken men daar van te wagten heeft, met zeer veele proeven bevestigd. Naar de Engelsche vermeerderde uitgaave vertaald door H.A. Bake. Leyden, A. en J. Honkoop, 1791.
[4], 140 p. 22.3 cm.
Provenance: Aubert (bookplate)
Francois de Neufchâteau, Nicolas Louis, comte, 1750-1828.
Le conservateur, ou Recueil de morceaux inedits d'histoire, de politique, de littérature et de philosophie, tirés des porte-feuilles de N. François (de Neufchâteau) ... Paris, Impr. de Crapelet, an VIII [1800]
2 v. 20 cm.
Provenance: G. Lenfant (bookplate); Ex Libris Dr. Herman Michael Serota Chicago, Illinois (bookplate)
Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.
Des Herrn Benjamin Franklins, Esq. Briefe von der Elektricität. Aus dem Engländischen übersetzet, nebst Anmerkungen, von J.C. Wilcke. Leipzig, G. Kiesewetter, 1758.
[26], 354 (i.e. 370) p. fold. plate. 17.5 cm.
Provenance: Ex libris A. E. Kluck Ao 1783 (inscription)
In Ronalds, Wheeler 367f.
Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.
Expériences et observations sur l'électricité faites a Philadelphie en AmÇrique, par Benjamin Franklin; & communiquÇes dans plusieurs lettres Ö P. Collinson de la Société royale de Londres. Tr. de l'anglois. Paris, Chez Durand, 1752.
24, lxx, [9], 222, [30] p. plates. 17 cm.
With this is bound Romas, J. de. Memoire. Bordeaux, 1776.
Provenance: Dhombres, fils (ink stamp)
In Ronalds, Wheeler 367d, Gartrell 172.
Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.
Experiments and observations on electricity, made at Philadelphia in America, by Benjamin Franklin, and communicated in several letters to P. Collinson, of London. London, Printed and sold by E. Cave, 1751-54.
3 pts. in 1 v. (154 p.) illus., fold. plate. 22.5 cm.
Provenance: Julian Gartner Hall (inscription); Ex Libris TWS
Wheeler 367, 367a, Gartrell 174, 178, 184.
Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.
Experiments and observations on electricity, made at Philadelphia in America, by Benjamin Franklin. To which are added, letters and papers on philosophical subjects. The whole corrected, methodized, improved, and now first collected into one volume. London, Printed for D. Henry; and sold by F. Newbery, 1769.
[1], iv, [2], 496 (i.e. 508), [16] p. illus., 7 plates (3 fold.) 23.6 cm.
Provenance: Unidentified bookplate; John Vernon, Lincoln's Inn (bookplate)
In Ronalds, Wheeler 367b, Gartrell 175.
Summarizations of Franklin's observations and experiments with electrical phenomena.
Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.
Experiments and observations on electricity, made at Philadelphia in America, by Benjamin Franklin. To which are added, letters and papers on philosophical subjects. The whole corrected, methodized, improved, and now first collected into one volume. 4th ed. London, Printed for D. Henry, 1769.
[3], iv, 496 (i.e. 508), [16] p. illus., diagrs., plates (2 fold.) 23.4 cm.
Provenance: John Vernon, Lincoln's Inn (bookplate)
In Ronalds, Gartrell 175.
Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.
Experiments and observations on electricity, made at Philadelphia in America, by Benjamin Franklin, to which are added, letters and papers on philosophical subjects. The whole corrected, methodized, improved, and now collected into one volume. 5th ed. London, Printed for F. Newbery, 1774.
[1], v, [1], 514, [16] p. illus., 7 plates. 23.5 cm.
In Ronalds, Wheeler 367c, Gartrell 176.
Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.
Mémoires de la vie privée de Benjamin Franklin, écrits par lui- même, et adressés a son fils; suivis d'un précis historique de sa vie politique, et des plusieurs piäces, relatives Ö ce päre de la libertÇ. Paris, Chez Buisson, 1791. [1], vi, 156, 203, 360-363 p. 21.2 cm.
Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.
New experiments and observations on electricity. Made at Philadelphia in America, by Benjamin Franklin, and communicated in several letters to Peter Collinson. Part I. The 3rd ed. London, Printed and sold by D. Henry and R. Cave, 1760.
[1], ii, 86 p. fold. plate. 20.6 cm.
In Ronalds, Gartrell 179.
Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.
Oeuvres de Franklin. Traduites de l'anglois sur la 4. éd. par Barbeu Dubourg avec des additions nouvelles. Tome premier [second]. Paris, Chez Quillau l'aine, 1773. 2 v. 12 plates, port. 27 cm.
Provenance: Jean Baretti (ink stamp); Ex Libris Ch. Roulleau de la Roussiere (bookplate)
In Ronalds, Gartrell 181.
Freind, John, 1675-1728.
Histoire de la medecine depuis Galien jusqu'au XVi siecle, où l'on voit les progrès de cet art de siécle en siécle, par rapport principalement à la pratique; les nouvelles maladies qu'on a vû naître, & les noms des médecins; avec les circonstances les plus remarquables de leur vie, leurs découvertes, leurs opinions, & enfin leur méthode de traiter les maladies. Traduite de l'anglois de J. Freind. Paris, Impr. de J. Vincent, 1728. [34], iii-xl, 345 (i.e. 346) p. 26.5 cm.
Provenance: Ex libris A. Bernardes de Oliveira (bookplate)
Freind, John, 1675-1728.
Historia medicinae a Galeni tempore usque ad initium saeculi decimi sexti. In qua ea praecipue notantur quae ad praxin pertinent. Anglice scripta ad Ricardum Mead, Latin conversa a Joanne Wigan. Cum indicibus Locupletissimis. Venetiis, Apud S. Coleti, 1735.
xl, 224 p. 23 cm.
Bound with his Opera omnia. Venetiis, 1733.
Freind, John, 1675-1728.
[Joannis Freind] Opera omnia, nempe Commentarii novem de febribus: De purgantibus in secunda variolarum confluentium febre epistola: Praelectiones chymicae: Emmenologia. Nunc primum in unum collecta. Venetiis, Apud F. Storti, 1733.
[9], 220, 19, [1] p. illus., charts. 23 cm.
With this are bound his Historia medicinae. Venetiis, 1735; and Pitcairne, A. Elementa medicinae physico-mathematica. Venetiis, 1733.
Freke, John, 1688-1756.
Essai sur la cause de l'electricite, ou l'on examine, pourquoi certaines choses ne peuvent pas etre electrisees et quelle est l'influence de l'electricite dans les rhumatismes du corps humain, dans la nielle des arbres, dans les vapeurs des mines, dans la plante sensitive &c. Adresse en forme de lettre a Guill. Watson. 2. ed. avec un supplement, tr. de l'anglois de Jean Freke. Paris, Chez S. Jorry, 1748.
viii, 52 p. 16.8 cm.
In Recueil de traites sur l'electricite. [Paris, 1748]
Gartrell 185.
Freke, John, 1688-1756.
An essay to shew the cause of electricity; and Why some things are non-electricable. In which is also consider'd its influence in the blasts on human bodies, in the blights on trees, in the damps in mines; and as it may affect the sensitive plant, &c. In a letter to William Watson, by John Freke. London, Printed for W. Innys, 1746.
[1], viii, 51, [1] p. 19.5 cm.
In Ronalds, Gartrell 186.
Considered the first book explaining the true nature of lightning and electricity in physical terms.
Freke, John, 1688-1756.
An essay to shew the cause of electricity; and why some things are non-electricable. In which is also consider'd its influence in the blasts on human bodies, in the blights on trees, in the damps in mines; and as it may affect the sensitive plant, &c. In a letter to William Watson, by John Freke. 2nd ed., with an appendix. London, Printed for W. Innys, 1746.
[1], viii, 64 p. 22.5 cm.
Wheeler 325, Gartrell 187.
Freke, John, 1688-1756.
An essay to shew the cause of electricity; and why some things are non-electricable. In which is also consider'd its influence in the blasts on human bodies, in the blights on trees, in the damps in mines; and as it may affect the sensitive plant, &c. In a letter to William Watson, by John Freke. 3rd ed., with an appendix. London, Printed for W. Innys, 1752.
[2], lxx-lxxiv, [77]-142 p. 20 cm.
Gartrell 188.
Freke, John, 1688-1756.
An essay to shew the cause of electricity; and why some things are non-electricable. In which is also considered its influence in the blasts on human bodies, in the blights on trees, in the damps in mines; and as it as it [sic] may affect the sensitive plant, &c. In a letter to William Watson, by John Freke. 3rd ed., with an appendix. London, Printed for W. Innys, 1752.
p. [67]-142. 19.8 cm.
(In his A treatise on the nature and property of fire. London, 1752.)
Freke, John, 1688-1756.
A treatise on fire; shewing the mechanical cause of magnetism; and why the compass varies in the manner it does. The 3rd part, by John Freke. London, Printed for W. Innys, and J. Richardson, 1752.
p. [143]-196. 19.8 cm.
(In his A treatise on the nature and property of fire. London, 1752.)
Freke, John, 1688-1756.
A treatise on the nature and property of fire. In three essays. I. Shewing the cause of vitality, and muscular motion; with many other phaenomena. II. On electricity. III. Shewing the mechanical cause of magnetism; and why the compass varies in the manner it does, by John Freke. London, Printed for W. Innys, and J. Richardson, 1752.
viii, 196 p. 19.8 cm.
With this is bound Domeier, W. Essay on the origin of the epidemical fever in Spain. [London, 1804]
In Ronalds, Wheeler 371, Gartrell 189.
Frisi, Paolo, 1728-1784.
[Paulli Frisii] Operum tomus primus - tertius. Mediolani, Apud J. Galeatium, regium typographium, 1782-85.
3 v. 14 fold. plates, port. 31.5 cm.
Frisi, Paolo, 1728-1784.
Opuscoli filosofici. I. Delle influenze meteorologiche della lune. II. Dei conduttori elettrici. III. Dell'azione dell'olio null' acqua. IV. Del calore superficiale, e centrale della terra. V. Dei fiumi sotterranei [di Paolo Frisi] Milano, Appresso G. Galeazzi Reg. Stampatore, 1781.
[8], 118 p. 20.7 cm.
Provenance: Bibliothecae Petri Buoninsegni Senis 1805 (bookplate)
In Ronalds, Gartrell 192.
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