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Kaempfer, Engelbert,
1651-1716.

Amoenitatum exoticarum politico-physico-medicarum fasciculi v, quibus continentur variae relationes, observationes & descriptiones rerum Persicarum & ulterioris Asiae, multâ attentione, in peregrinationibus per universum Orientum, collecta, ab auctore Engelberto Kaempfero. Lemgoviae, Typis & impensis H.W. Meyeri, 1712.

[18], 912, [32] p. illus., port., plates (part fold.) 23.6 cm.

Contains Kaempfer's doctoral thesis on the torpedo and its electrical properties.

Kaempfer, Engelbert, 1651-1716.

De beschryving van Japan, behelsende een verhaal van den ouden en tegenwoordigen staat en regeering van dat ryk, van deszelfs temples, paleysen, kasteelen en andere gebouwen; van deszelfs metalen, mineralen, boomen, planten, dieren, vogelen en visschen. Van de tydrekening, en opvolging van de geestelyke en wereldlyke keysers. Van de oorspronkelyke afstamming, godsdiensten, gewoonten en handwerkselen der inboorlingen, en van hunnen koophandel met de Nederlanders en de Chineesen. Benevens eene beschryving van het koningryk Siam. In't Hoogduytsch beschreven door Engelbert Kaempfer ... uyt het oorspronkelyk Hoogduytsch handschrift, nooit te vooren gedrukt, in het Engelsch overgezet, door J.G. Scheuchzer ... Die daar by gevoegt heeft het leven van den schryver ... Onder het opzicht van den Ridder Hans Sloane uytgegeven, en uyt het Engelsch in't Nederduytsch vertaalt. Amsterdam, A. van Huyssteen, 1733.

[5], 50, 500 p. 48 plates. 32.4 cm.

Kempelen, Wolfgang, Ritter von, 1734-1804.

[Wolfgangs von Kempelen]...Mechanismus der menschlichen Sprache nebst der Beschreibung seiner sprechenden Maschine. Wien, J.V. Degen, 1791.

[20], 456 p. illus., 27 plates (incl. port.) 19 cm.

Kempelen, Wolfgang, Ritter von, 1734-1804.

Le mécanisme de la parole, par De Kempelen. Vienne, Imprimé chez B. Bauer, & se trouve chez J.V. Degen, 1791. xii, 464, [4] p. illus., plates. 19 cm.

Kirchhof, Nikolaus Anton Johann, 1725-1800.

Beschreibung einer Zurüstung welche die anziehende Kraft der Erde gegen die Gewitterwolke und die Nützlichkeit der Blitzableiter sinnlich beweiset, nebst einer kupfertafel und einer Beschreibung verschiedener nützlichen Maschinen aus Hernn Fergusons Vorlesungen übersetzt [von] N.A.J. Kirchhof. Hamburg und Berlin, F. Nikolai, 1781.

56 p. 2 fold. plates. 16.5 cm.

Kite, Charles, 1768-1811.

An essay on the recovery of the apparently dead, by Charles Kite. Being the essay to which the Humane society's medal was adjudged. To which is prefixed, Dr. Lettsom's address on the delivery of the medal. London, C. Dilly, 1788.

xxvii, [1], 274, [1] p. illus., 7 plates (4 fold. letterpress) 21.3 cm.

Discusses techniques for reviving those apparently dead and emphasizes the use of electrical stimulation for that purpose.

Kite, Charles, 1768-1811.

Essays and observations, physiological and medical, on the submersion of animals, and on the resin of the Acoroides resinifera, or yellow resin from Botany Bay. To which are added, select histories of diseases; with remarks, by Charles Kite. London, C. Dilly, 1795.

vii, [1], [433]-434, 432 p. 11 fold. plates. 21.8 cm.

Provenance: Ex libris Societatis Medical Edinensis (inscription)

Kitz, Fridericus Casimir.

Dissertatio inavgvralis physico-medica sistens electricitatis in medicina vsvm et abvsvm ... avctor, Fridericvs Casimir Kitz. Goettingae, Aere Barmeieriano, 1787.

[4], 92 p. 18.5 cm.

Wheeler 542.

Klingenstierna, Samuel, 1698-1765.

Tal, om de nyaste rön vid electriciteten; hållit for Kongl. Vetensk. Academien vid praesidii nedläggande, d. 31. Oct. år 1755. Af Samuel Klingenstierna. Stockholm, På Kongl. Vetenskaps Academiens befallning, 1755.

[1], 32 p. 19.4 cm.

In Ronalds.

Knight, Gowin, 1713-1772.

An attempt to demonstrate that all the phaenomena in nature may be explained by two simple active principles, attraction and repulsion: wherein the attractions of cohesion, gravity, and magnetism, are shewn to be one and the same; and the phaenomena of the latter are more particularly explained, by Gowin Knight. London, Printed for J. Nourse, 1754.

[3], 95 p. illus. 26 cm.

Knight, Thomas, M.D.

Reflections upon catholicans, or universal medicines. With some remarks on the natural heat that is in animals and the luminous emanations from human bodies. Also, the sundry experiments and observations made upon the human calculus rationally consider'd; demonstrating that fire is the principal agent in lithontripticks or stone dissolvents by Thomas Knight. London, T. Osborne, 1749.

167 p. 22.4 cm.

Provenance: To Robert Wynne of Bodisgallen Esq. From His very humble .... T. Knight. (inscription)

Discusses the "electric aura" also.

Kohlreif, Gottfried Albert, 1749-1802.

Sollte die Electricität wirklich Wärme verursachen; und sollte diese Wärme eine Wirkung der Zersetzung des Elementarfeuers und Phlogiston's seyn? Von Kohlreif. Weimar, Hoffmannischen Hof, 1787. 30 p. 16.8 cm.

In Ronalds.

Kratzenstein, Christian Gottlieb, 1723-1795.

Theoria electricitatis more geometrico explicata ... pvblice defendet Christianvs Gottlieb Kratzenstein. Halae Magdebvrgicae, Impensis C.H. Hemmerde, 1746.

[8], 62 p. fold. plate. 19.8 cm.

In Ronalds, Wheeler 326, Gartrell 296.

Reports the first efforts to measure an electric field.

Krause, Karl Christian, 1716-1793, praeses.

De irritabilitate partivm corporis hvmani dissertatio prima ... praeside Carolo Christiano Kravse ... defendet Travgott Gvilielmvs Gnavck. Lipsiae, Ex officina Langenhemia, 1772.

31 p. 23.5 cm.

With this is bound Plaz, A.W. Pynegyrin medicam indicit et de arte natvram svperante praefatvr. [Lipsica] 1772.

Provenance: S. C. Lucae (bookplate)

Krüger, Johann Gottlob, 1715-1759.

Johann Gottlob Krügers ... Geschichte der Erde in den allerältesten Zeiten. Halle, in der LÅderwaldischen Buchhandlung, 1746. [3], 186 p. 3 fold. plates. 19.8 cm.

In Ronalds.

First printed account of Kleist's experiment, accompanied by an illustration of the Leyden jar, appears at the end of this book.

Krüger, Johann Gottlob, 1715-1759.

[Io. Gottlob Krvgeri] Philosophia natvralis experimentis confirmata. Halae Magdebvrgicae, Impensis C.H. Hemmerde, 1753.

[16], 992, [61] p. front. (port.), 14 fold. plates. 17.3 cm.

Krüger, Johann Gottlob, 1715-1759.

Johann Gottlob Krügers Zuschrifft an seine Zuhörer worinnen er ihnen seine Gedancken von der Electricität mittheilet und ihnen zugleich seine künstige Lectionen bekant macht. Halle, C.H. Hemmerde, 1744.

22 (i.e. 32) p. 16.8 cm.

In Ronalds.

Considered the earliest work to suggest the therapeutic use of electricity.

Krüger, Johann Gottlob, 1715-1759.

[Johann Gottlob Krügers] Zuschrifft an seine Zuhörer worinnen er ihnen seine Gedancken von der Electricität mittheilet und ihnen zugleich seine künftige Lectionen bekant macht. Neue und mit Anmerckungen verm. Aufl. Halle, C.H. Hemmerde, 1745.

56, [2] p. 2 fold. plates. 16.5 cm.

In Ronalds, Wheeler 318.

Reprints the 1744 text and doubles the length of the work with a forward and notes, including the famous quote "Since electricity must have a usefulness, and we have seen that it cannot be looked for either in theology or in jurisprudence, there is obviously nothing left but medicine."

Kühn, Karl Gottlob, 1754-1840.

Geschichte der medizinischen und physikalischen Elektricität und der neuesten Versuche, die in dieser nüzlichen Wissenschaft gemacht worden sind. Aus den neuesten Schriften zusammengetragen, und mit eigenen Versuchen vermehrt von Karl Gottlob Kühn. Leipzig, in der Weygandschen Buchhandlung, 1783-85.

2 v. in 1. 6 fold. plates. 19.5 cm.

Wheeler 515.

Kühn, Karl Gottlob, 1754-1840, ed.

Die neuesten Entdeckungen in der physikalischen und medizinischen Elektrizität; aus den wichtigsten Schriften zusammengetragen, von Karl Gottlob Kühn ... Leipzig, Weygand, 1796-97.

2 v. 20.6 cm.

In Ronalds.

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