Thomas Browne (1605-1682) [Wkikipedia] The first English translation "electric" or "electrical" corresponding to the Latin "electrica" |
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1646 | Thomas Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica: Or, Enquiries Into Very Many Received Tenents, and Commonly Presumed Truths. The Fourth Edition (Edward Dod, London, 1658) [Archive (4th Edition, 1658)] [Univ. Chicago (6th Edition, 1672)] [Univ. Michigan (1st Edition, 1646)] pp. 86-91, Chap. IV, Of Bodies Electrical |