An essay on electricity
Subtitle: explaining the theory and practice of that useful science, and the mode of applying it to medical purposes ; with, An essay on magnetism
By: by George Adams
Edition: 3rd ed., corr. and considerably enl.
Series: Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology, and Medicine, Part I; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology, and Medicine, Part I
Publisher: Printed by R. Hindmarsh for the author, and sold by him at Tycho Brahe's Head
Published: 1787
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 473
Subjects: Electricity; Early works to 1850; Magnetism; Early works to 1800; Physics; Medicine; Therapeutics
Other titles: Essay on magnetism.
Notes: An essay on magnetism (p. [375]-454) is an extract from a work never published. Cf. Advertisement (p. [374]).

Pages [469]-473 are A catalogue of mathematical and philosophical instruments, made and sold by George Adams.

Press figures: 4 on p. iiv (i.e. vii), xxxi, xl, l, lxxxii, 126, 138, 184, and others; 6 on p. xvi, xxiii, lx, lxviii, 72, 135, 159, and others; 2 on p. 12, 18, 26, 39, 64, 90, 108, and others; 5 on p. 42, 54, 100, 175, and others.

The title page is engraved.

Advertising: p. [iii-iv], 1st count.

Includes index.

Reproduction of the original from the Huntington Library.

Includes bibliographical references.