‎NOLLET (Abbé)‎
‎Lettres sur l'électricité dans lesquelles on examine les découvertes qui ont été faites sur cette matière depuis l'année 1752 et les conséquences que l'on en peut tirer -- BEL EXEMPLAIRE‎

‎P., Guerin & Delatour, 1764, 2 volumes in 8 reliés en plein veau marbré, dos ornés de caissons et fers dorés (reliure de l'époque), T.1 : 12p., 251pp., T.2 : (8), 284pp., 8 planches dépliantes numérotées 1 à 8‎

Reference : 7985

‎---- BEL EXEMPLAIRE ---- "... NOLLET was the first to observe that pointed bodies electrified give out streams of light but that they do not exhibit as powerful indications of electricity as are shown by blund bodies. He also found that glass and other non-conductors are more strongly excited in air than in vacuo ; that the electric spark is more diffuse and unbroken in vacuo ; and that an excited tube loses none of the electricityt by being placed in the focus of a concave mirror when the sunlight is therein concentrated... NOLLET is the first one who published the close relationship existing between lightning and the electric spark. This he did in the fourth volume of his "Leçons"... His experiments upon the electrical powers of different kinds of glass are given in the sixth volume of the "Leçons de physique expérimentale". (Mottelay, p. 182) - DSB X, pp. 145/147**7985/7985/ARM1A-ARB6‎