Author: MUSSCHENBROEK, P. VAN.- Magnetism.-
Title: Dissertatio physica experimentalis de magnete. Lugduni Batavorum anno MDCCXXIX edita nunc vero auditoribus oblata, ...
Description: Viennae Austriae, Johannis Thomae Trattner, Caesareae Regiae Aulae bibliopolae & univers. Typographi., 1754. 4to. W. 9 engr. fold. plates and 1 engr. fold. world map 'Tabula Totius Orbis Terrarum' [being Halley's first accurate "Magnetic Chart"]. Contemp. full dark brown clf., 2 corners and top of spine dam. A few wormh. at lower spine end/ upper cover. Spine in compartments. Original title shield preserved. [n3, A - D4, E2; 2A - Z4; Aa - Mm4, Nn2]. (VI, 1 - 35, I (blank); 283, I (blank) pp.). (Some light to medium yellowing / foxing.). Vienna reprint of van Musschenbroek's 1729 thesis. DSB IX, pp. 594 - 597: ' [Many] experiments can be studied in Musschenbroek's books, which contain many fine illustrations; they deal with the mechanics of rigid bodies, air pressure, heat, cohesion, capillarity, phosphorecence, MAGNETISM, and electricity. Many of these experiments have become classics in elementary instruction.: BdH, 3481: Giese, 100: Wheeler Gift, 383: Ronalds, 360: Gartrell, 376: Bakken Coll. p. 89: Mottelay, p. 137, on Edmund Halley, astronomer royal, who in 1683 made known 'his theory of four magnetic poles and of the periodical movement of the magnetic line without declination.'. The copy of the first accurate Magnetic Chart was published in Halley's "Magnetic results..." [1698 - 1700]: The plates in this Vienna printed Van Musschenbroek include Halleys famous "first accurate magnetic chart", see plate X: Ekelöf, 209: 'Peter van Musschenbroek's physico-experimental dissertation on the magnet. Published in Leiden in the year 1729, now particularly set out for his audience.':

Keywords: physics