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… of Public Science: Rhetoric, Technology, and Natural Philosophy in Newtonian Britain, 1660-1750 (Cambridge University Press, 1992), p. 123. The effects of static electricity were among the phenomena translated from the circles of … in William Clark, Jan Golinski, and Simon Schaffer (eds.), The Sciences in Enlightened Europe (University of Chicago Press, 1999), pp. 69-93. Outside the home, experiments were also shown in the predominantly male ambience of clubs and … Discussing Chemistry and Steam: The Minutes of a Coffee House Philosophical Society , 1780-1787 (Oxford University Press, 2002). The Dissenting minister and teacher Joseph Priestley wrote, in his History and Present State of Electricity …
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