A summary view of the spontaneous electricity of the earth and atmosphere
Subtitle: wherein the causes of lightning and thunder, as well as the constant electrification of the clouds and vapours, suspended in the air, are explained. With some new experiments and observations, tending to illustrate the subject of atmospherical electricity; to which is subjoined the atmospherico-electrical journal, kept during two years, as presented to and published by the Royal society of London.
By: By John Read, of Knightsbridge, London.
Publisher: Printed for the author, of whom it may be had; sold by Elmsley [etc.]
Published: 1793
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 160
Subjects: Electricity -- Early works to 1850.
Genres: Early works to 1850.
Notes: Errata, one leaf, prefixed.
Reference to Dr. Franklin, p. 45.
"A meteorological journal, principally relating to atmosperical electricity; kept at Knightsbridge from the 9th of May, 1789, to the 8th of May, 1790 ...": p. 103-160.