Papers, 1766-1779.

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Papers, 1766-1779.

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This collection contains letters to Sir Joseph Banks, Laura Bassi, Gian Francesco Cigna, Benjamin Franklin, and others, on electricity, meteorology, phosphorescence, lightning, aurora borealis, earthquakes, and other scientific subjects.

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Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790

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Benjamin Franklin FRS FRSA FRSE (January 17, 1706 [O.S. January 6, 1706] – April 17, 1790) was an American polymath who was active as a writer, scientist, inventor, statesman, diplomat, printer, publisher and political philosopher. Among the leading intellectuals of his time, Franklin was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, a drafter and signer of the United States Declaration of Independence, and the first United States postmaster general. As a scientist, he was a major figure in ...

Banks, Joseph, 1743-1820

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José Francisco Correia da Serra was a Portuguese scholar, naturalist and diplomat. From the guide to the José Francisco Correia da Serra letters, 1810-1823, 1810-1823, (American Philosophical Society) English naturalist From the guide to the Sir Joseph Banks letters, 1802, 1803, 1804, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) Scientist and explorer. President of the Royal Society. From the description of Letters and pa...

Bassi, Laura, 1711-1778

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Cigna, Gian Francesco.

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Eandi, Giuseppe Antonio Francesco Girolamo, 1735-1799.

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Beccaria, Giambatista, 1716-1781

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Giambatista (aka. Giovanni Battista) Beccaria, a professor of experimental physics, taught at the University of Turin. From the guide to the Ex Phisicis Institutionibus, 1769, 1769, (American Philosophical Society) Croation by birth, mathematian and natural philosopher, Rudjer Josip Boskovic spent most of his life in Rome and Milan, but also lived briefly in Paris and London. From the guide to the Ruggero Giuseppe Boscovich papers, [ca. 1730-1786], Circa 1730-178...