COULOMB, Charles Augustin de (1736-1806). Mémoires sur l'Electricité et le Magnétisme, Paris: Bachelier, [c. 1791], 7 parts in one volume, taken from "Memoires de l'Académie Royale des Sciences de Paris and published between 1785 and 1789, 4°, 9 folding engraved plates, 3 folding tables (perforation stamp on title and one text leaf, stamped on verso of leaf, margin of title and one text leaf repaired), library cloth (inner hinge broken), t.e.g. [Dibner 58; Honeyman 771; Horblit 316; Norman 527] Provenance: JCL

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COULOMB, Charles Augustin de (1736-1806). Mémoires sur l'Electricité et le Magnétisme, Paris: Bachelier, [c. 1791], 7 parts in one volume, taken from "Memoires de l'Académie Royale des Sciences de Paris and published between 1785 and 1789, 4°, 9 folding engraved plates, 3 folding tables (perforation stamp on title and one text leaf, stamped on verso of leaf, margin of title and one text leaf repaired), library cloth (inner hinge broken), t.e.g. [Dibner 58; Honeyman 771; Horblit 316; Norman 527] Provenance: JCL

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"Invention of the torsion balance, leading to proof of Coulomb's law of attraction and repulsion of electric charges -- the inauguration of mensuration in electricity" (Horblit).

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