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[Sguario, Eujsebio] - Dell'elettricismo, o sia delle forze elettriche de' corpi svelate dalla fisica sperimentale, con - 1746
This book stands as one of the earliest comprehensive Italian texts on electricity, and it's by Eusebio Sguario (1717–1764), a Venetian-born physician with a keen interest in experimental physics.
It features a title page printed in red and black, and three half-page engravings (vignettes) of scientific apparatus embedded within the text.
The book includes a charming yet curious frontispiece—depicting a young lady seemingly being electrified while on a swing—alongside lavish decorative elements in the book.
Ladies figure in the book as being especially susceptible to electricity and its cures: 'women generally are electrized more easily, and in a better manner, than men, but in one or the other sex a fiery and sulfurous
temperament better than others, and youths better than old people'. (page 288). Also cited in Arthur Firstenberg, The Invisible Rainbow: a history of electricity and life (2017) in chapters 2 and 3.
This first edition is exceedingly rare and the later 1747 is much more common. The book has been recently republished and has been much studied.
N. 98484068
Non più disponibile
[Sguario, Eujsebio] - Dell'elettricismo, o sia delle forze elettriche de' corpi svelate dalla fisica sperimentale, con - 1746
This book stands as one of the earliest comprehensive Italian texts on electricity, and it's by Eusebio Sguario (1717–1764), a Venetian-born physician with a keen interest in experimental physics.
It features a title page printed in red and black, and three half-page engravings (vignettes) of scientific apparatus embedded within the text.
The book includes a charming yet curious frontispiece—depicting a young lady seemingly being electrified while on a swing—alongside lavish decorative elements in the book.
Ladies figure in the book as being especially susceptible to electricity and its cures: 'women generally are electrized more easily, and in a better manner, than men, but in one or the other sex a fiery and sulfurous
temperament better than others, and youths better than old people'. (page 288). Also cited in Arthur Firstenberg, The Invisible Rainbow: a history of electricity and life (2017) in chapters 2 and 3.
This first edition is exceedingly rare and the later 1747 is much more common. The book has been recently republished and has been much studied.
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