A Tribute To The Memory Of Peter Collinson

Author : William H. Dillingham
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780484029391
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (293 download)

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Download or read book Tribute to the Memory of Peter Collinson written by William H. Dillingham and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-18 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Tribute to the Memory of Peter Collinson: With Some Notice of Dr. Darlington's Memorials of John Bartram and Humphry Marshall Franklin, who was the founder of that library, made his first electrical experiments with an apparatus that had been sent to it as a present by Peter Collinson. He deemed it, therefore, a proper mark of acknowledgment to inform him of the success with which it had been used, and his first essays on electricity were originally communicated to this good man. They were read in the Royal Society, where they were not thought worth so much notice as to be printed in their transactions and his paper in which the sameness of lightning with electricity was first asserted, was laughed at by the connoisseurs. Peter Collin son, however, gave the letters to Cave for the Gentleman's Magazine. Cave, forming a better judgment than the Royal Society had done, printed them separately in a pamphlet, for which Dr. Fothergill wrote a preface; the pamphlet by succes sive additions swelled to a volume in quarto, which went through five editions, and, as Franklin observes, cost Cave nothing for copy money.' What a contrast between this English Quaker and Monsieur La Cour at Leyden, who, having raised a double tuberose from the seed, and propagated it by the roots till he had as many as he could find room to plant, destroyed the rest as fast as they were produced, that he might boast of being the only person in Europe who possessed it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.