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On the Electricity excited by the mere Contact of conducting Substances of different kinds. In a letter from Mr. Alexander Volta, F.R.S. Professor of Natural Philosophy in the University of Pavia, to the Rt. Hon. Sir Joseph Banks, Bart. K.B. P.R.S. / Investigation of the Powers of the prismatic Colours to heat and illuminate Objects. / Experiments on the Refrangibility of the invisible Rays of the Sun. / Experiments on the Solar and on the Terrestrial Rays that occasion Heat.
London: W. Bulmer & Co. for Peter Elmsley, 1800. VOLTA, Alessandro. On the Electricity excited by the mere Contact of conducting Substances of different kinds. In a letter from Mr. Alexander Volta, F.R.S. Professor of Natural Philosophy in the University of Pavia, to the Rt. Hon. Sir Joseph Banks, Bart..... More