LA FORMAZIONE
DEL TUONO, DELLA FOLGORE, E DI
VARIE ALTRE METEORE
SPIEGATA GIUSTA LE IDEE
DEL SIGNOR FRANKLIN
DA GIUSEPPE SAVERIO POLI
Pubblico Professore Straordinario di
Fisica Sperimentale nella REgia
Università di Napoli
DIRETTA AL SIGNOR D. DANIELLO AVELLONI
Canonico Regolare della Congregazione Renana
IN NAPOLI MDCCLXXII
PRESSO DONATO CAMPO
CON LICENZA DE SUPERIORI
Very scarce original edition of 1772 of this work of meteorology by Giuseppe Saverio Poli (1746-1825) physician biologist and italian and italian naturalist.
Poli got a degree in medicine and began to teach in Nunziatella of which after some time cared the Gabinet of physics providing the most modern tools. He continued his activity of teaching in the Ospedale degli Incurabili.
He bacame very famous for his "Elementi di fisica" published in different editions.
Thanks to different voyages Poli enetered into contact with importants exponents of scientific international world between them Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) famous to be one of the establisher fathers of United States making different discoveries in the area of electricity and invented the kite twain.
The work is based on the ideas on Franklin about the thunder.
Between the issues treated: opinions of ancient and modern about thunder and the thunderbolt, Mechanism of formation of clouds, in particular the connession of electricity, Origin and formation of water Meteors, Fire meteors, Corrispondance between the properties and effects of electric fire and thunderbolt, Description of kite twain, Electricity of water, fire and flame, Ignis fatuus and other wonderful things etc...
Not common work, only 8 copies in the archive of italian libraries ICCU.
In fair conditions but complete of all pages.
Full parchment coeval cover with golden title in the spine in poor general conditions with wearings and missing parts in the edges and spine. Cover compeltely detached from the body of the book (see the photo). Binding in fair conditions. Inside pages are in good conditions with occasional foxings. Worming in the first 10 pages with slight loss of text until pag. 6 and from CXXVI untilt he end ruining the text from pag. CXLVII until the end with loss of some portion of letter. In 8. Dim. 20,5x13 cm. Pp. 24+CLII.
Expedition and packaging cost for EU: € 10,00
Expedition and packaging cost for the rest of the world: € 13,00
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