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‎Expériences physico-méchaniques sur différens sujets et principalement sur la lumière et l'électricité, produites par le frottement des corps traduites de l'anglais par M; DE BREMOND, revues et mises au jour avec un Discours préliminaire, des remarques et des notes par M. DESMAREST -- PREMIERE EDITION FRANCAISE -- 2 VOLUMES (COMPLETE SET) -- BEL EXEMPLAIRE‎

‎P., Cavelier, 1754, 2 volumes in 8 reliés en plein veau moucheté, dos richement ornés de fers dorés, tranches rouges (reliures de l'époque), T.1 : 176pp., 490pp., (1), 5 PLANCHES numérotées 1 à 4, T.2 : (1), 596pp., 2 PLANCHES numérotées 5 à 6, soit 7 PLANCHES dont 6 dépliantes‎

‎---- PREMIERE EDITION FRANCAISE "prefaced by a valuable Discours historique et raisonné sur les expériences de M. Hauksbee by Nicolas DESMAREST who points out the mutual influence fo HAUKSBEE and NEWTON". (DSB VI p. 175) ---- BEL EXEMPLAIRE ---- "HAUKSBEE is remembered for his experiments on electroluminescence, static electricity, and capillarity. His discoveries were first published in a series of papers in the Society's Philosophical Transactions and finally brought together in his Physico-Mechanical Exeperiments on various subsjects. Translated into Italian, Dutch, and French, HAUKSBEE's book was widely read in the eighteenth century. His desmonstration that glass is a convenient and malleable material for producing frictional electricity opened the way for the work of Stephen GRAY, Charles DE CISTERNAY DUFAY and Ben jamin FRANKLIN. His discoveries had a marked influence on the later speculatons of Isaac NEWTON and a century later LAPLACE turned to HAUKSBEE's book when he embarked on his study of capillarity....". (DSB VI pp. 169/175)**8004/ARM1D‎