‎"NOLLET, (JEAN ANTOINE). - THE THEORY OF THE ""DOUBLE FLUX"" IN ELECTRICITY.‎
‎Recherches sur les Causes Particulieres des Phénoménes Électriques, Et sur les effets nuisibles ou avantageux qu'on peut attendre. Troisieme Edition.‎

‎Paris, Freres Guerin, 1753. Small 8vo. Cont. full mottled calf. Top of spine with wear. Raised bands, richly gilt spine. Some wear to titlelabels. Small tear to hinges at upper compartment (hinges not loosening).. Spine a little rubbed. Small loss of leather at at lower right corner of frontcover. XXIII,444 pp. and 8 large folded engraved plates (showing apparatus and experiments with electricity). Internally clean, printed on good paper. From the library of le Comte de Caumia Baillenx, ""en son Chateau d'Andrain"" and with his mongram, blindtooled on both covers.‎

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‎In this work Nollet, the discoverer of the theory of double flux, describes, among other experiments, the famous experiments with the Leyden jar. ""The author lay down a theory, according to which the cause of electrical phenomena is the effluence and affluence of a subtile fluid which is everywhere present. Some interesting experiments are described with vacuum tubes also on the influence of electric charges on the growth of plants."" (Wheeler, 355, but not listing this edition). - Poggendorff II:296.""Nollet's system (effluence and affluence) was much superior to earlier theories of double flux. such as Moliere's or Hauksbee's. A cheif difficulty with them (as with the theory of pulsating atmospheres) had been to explain why attraction occurs first.follwed by contact and then repulsion. Nollet answered that the effluent and affluent flows differ not only in direction, but in velocity and spatial distribution as well.The effluent stream consists of many jets, each of which spreads out into a cone with apex at one of the scattered exit pores. The affluent current, being a hodgepodge of differently directed effluent streams, is approximately isotropic.""(Heilbron, p. 284)‎

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‎NOLLET, Abbé Jean Antoine‎

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‎Recherches sur les causes particulières des phénomènes électriques, Et sur les effets nuisibles ou avantageux qu'on peut en attendre. Troisième edition‎

‎A Paris chez Les Freres Guerin 1753 In-16° (cm. 16,5 x 9,5), pp. XXIII, 444, 8 belle tavv. incise in rame f.t. e rip., legatura coeva in piena pelle nocciola, dorso a cinque nervi, titolo su tassello e fregi in oro, tagli marezzati. Leggere abrasioni ai piatti ma nel complesso ottimo esemplare. NOLLET , Jean Antoine Abate e fisico, nato a Pimprez il 17 novembre 1700, morto nel 1770. Figlio di poveri contadini, fu dapprima diacono a Noyon, ma poi, dedicatosi alla fisica, entrò nel laboratorio di Réaumur, e fece una serie di ricerche sul potere elettrico delle punte, sul comportamento del fluido elettrico nei tubi, sull'accelerazione dell'evaporazione nei fluidi elettrizzati, ecc. Nel 1734 fu fatto membro della Royal Society di Londra, nel 1735 inaugurò a Parigi un corso libero di fisica sperimentale, e nel 1736 il cardinale Fleury creò per lui una cattedra. Nel 1739 entrò all'Académie des sciences, insegnò poi a Torino e a Bordeaux, al Collège de Navarre, e nel 1757 fu nominato "maître de physique et d'histoire naturelle des Enfants de France" cioè dei principi reali. Il N. avrebbe introdotto in Francia la fisica sperimentale: l'onore in verità sembra spettare a P. Polinière: ma il N. per il primo abbracciò l'insieme della nuova scienza che arricchì di scoperte notevoli, come quella dell'endosmosi. Notevole è anche la sua teoria del fluido elettrico. Bibl.: Grandjean de Fouchy, Éloge, in Mém. de l'Ac. des sc. hist., 1770; M. Gliozzi, Deux théoriciens de l'électricité, in Archeion, genn. 1934.‎


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‎NOLLET (M. l’Abbé)‎

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‎Recherches sur les causes particulières des phénomènes électriques et sur les effets nuisibles ou avantageux qu’on peut en attendre… Troisième édition.‎

‎P., Frères Guerin, 1753. In 12 veau marbré dos orné à cinq nerfs, XXIII-444 pp. avec huit planches hors texte (reliure de l’époque).‎


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