Dissertatio physica de mercurio lucente in vacuo quam annuente aeterno luminum patre permissu sapientiss. Philos. Ord. in Univ. Basil. sub praesidio viri excellentissimi, celeberrimi Joh. Bernoulli, Ph. et M ed. D. Math. P. P. trium societatum scient. Gall. Angl. et Boruss. Socii, patroni et praeceptoris sui omni observantiae cultu prosequendi, publico eruditorum examini submittit ad d. 24. Mart. MDCCXIX Wilhelm. Bernhard. Nebel, Hasso-Marpurg. M. C. Auctor. In auditorio collegii inferioris.
Basel: Frederick Lüdi, [1719]. First edition, extremely rare, and a presentation copy from Nicolaus I Bernoulli to James Stirling, of this dissertation which describes Johann I Bernoulli’s two decades of work on ‘barometric light’ – the discovery of this phenomenon revealed the possibility of electric lighting. One of the foremost..... More
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