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Electricity & Plant Growth.- Bertholon (Pierre) De l'Électricité des Végétaux, 3 engraved...
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Electricity & Plant Growth.- Bertholon (Pierre) De l'Électricité des Végétaux, 3 engraved folding plates, [Pritzel 719], Paris, P.F. Didot Jeune, 1783 § Nollet (J.A.) Recherches sur les Causes Particulieres des Phénoménes Électriques, 8 engraved folding plates, Chez les Freres Guerin, 1749, first editions, both with H.F.Bienfait bookplates, the second also with that of Alfred Schmid, contemporary calf, gilt spines, 8vo (2)
*** "'De l'Électricité des Végétaux' deals with the application of the electricity to the growth of plants; for this, Bertholon used an electrovegetometer of his own invention" (D.S.B. II p.82-83)
Wheeler gift notes that J.A. Nollet's work "lays down a theory according to which the cause of electrical phenomena is the 'effluence and affluence' of a subtle fluid which is everywhere present."
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