75/2205 Desaguliers, J.T. De natuurkunde uit ondervindingen opgemaakt. Amst., I. Tirion, 1746-1751, 3 vols., (26),483,(25); (16),510,(2); (8),250,(66)p., 114 fold. engr. plates, contemp. unif. gilt calf w. mor. letterpiece, 4to.

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= John Théophilus Desaguliers (1683-1744), from Huguenot parents who settled in England. Bierens de Haan 1178-1180. "Desaguliers continued to furnish the society with experiments until his death. (...) between 1716 and 1742 he contributed no fewer than fifty-two papers to the Philosophical Transactions, the earlier ones chiefly on optics and mechanics, the later ones on electricity." (DSB). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XC.