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Benjamin Wilson (1721-88)
A series of experiments on the subjects of phosphori, and their prismatic colours ... : also a translation of two memoirs of the late J. B. Beccaria ... taken from the Bologna Acts [of 1774] / by B. Wilson. 1776
24.0 x 2.0 cm (book measurement (inventory)) | RCIN 1090160
![A series of experiments on the subjects of phosphori, and their prismatic colours . . . : also a translation of two memoirs of the late J. B. Beccaria . . . taken from the Bologna Acts [of 1774] / by B. Wilson](https://col.rct.uk/sites/default/files/styles/rctr-scale-1300-500/public/collection-online/1/e/1073159-1662994546.jpg?itok=JcUfX2GF "A series of experiments on the subjects of phosphori, and their prismatic colours . . . : also a translation of two memoirs of the late J. B. Beccaria . . . taken from the Bologna Acts [of 1774] / by B. Wilson")
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Benjamin Wilson was a painter and amateur scientist who is notable for his work on electricity and his rivalry with Benjamin Franklin over the design of lightning rods (see RCIN 1090180).
This work on experiments with light and phosphorescence was published by Wilson in 1774. It consists of his experiments and translations of two treatises by the Italian chemist Jacopo Bartolommeo Beccari. Wilson's work on the subject is notable for his observations that impurities within luminescent objects affected the colours that were produced.Provenance
From the library of George III at Windsor
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Measurements
24.0 x 2.0 cm (book measurement (inventory))
Other number(s)
ESTC : English Short Title Catalogue Citation Number – ESTC T47478
