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PDF Front cover PDF Frontispiece. PDF Title page PDF Preface. PDF Table of contents PDF References to the plates. PDF Chap. I. Containing a summary view of the general principles of electricity, or a series of introductory propositions and experiments. PDF Chap. II. Of electricity in general [...]. PDF Chap. III. Of the electrical machine, with directions for exciting it. PDF Chap. IV. Of the Franklinian hypothesis. Objections to this hypothesis. Eele's system preferable to the Franklinian. PDF Chap. V. On the method of using the electrical apparatus, and a description of the principal articles thereof. PDF Chap. VI. Entertaining experiments by the attraction and repulsion of light bodies, with some remarks on electrical attraction. PDF Chap. VII. The properties of electric attraction and repulsion, illustrated by experiments on light bodies. PDF Chap. VIII. Of the electric spark. PDF Chap. IX. Of electrified points. PDF Chap. X. Of the Leyden phial, or jar. PDF Chap. XI. Of the electrical battery, and the lateral explosion of charged jars. PDF Chap. XIII. Of the electric light in vacuo. PDF Chap. XIV. On the influence of pointed conductors for buildings. PDF Chap. XV. To charge a plate of air. PDF Chap. XVI. Of the electrophorus, and Mr. Bennet's experiments therewith. PDF Chap. XVII. Of Mr. Volta's condensing plates [...]; and of rendering very sensible very small degrees of natural and artificial electricity. PDF Chap. XVIII. Of the methods of manifesting the presence, and ascertaining the quality of natural or artificial electricity. PDF Chap. XIX. Of atmospherical electricity. PDF Chap. XX. On medical electricity. PDF A letter to Mr. George Adams, on the subject of medical electricity; from Mr. John Birch, Surgeon. PDF Addenda, by the editor. PDF Index. PDF Errata. PDF [Plates I - V.] PDF Back cover