Tentamina Experimentorum Naturalium Captorum in Academia del Cimento. Sub Auspiciis. Serenissimi Principis Leopoldi. Magni Etruriae Ducis. Et Ab Ejus Academiae Secretario Conscriptorum: Ex Italico in Latinum Sermonem Conversa. Quibus Commentarios, Nova Experimenta, et Orationem de Methodo Instituendi Experimenta Physica Addidit.

Leiden:: Joan et. Herm. Verbeek, 1731., 1731. 2 books bound as 1. 8vo. [16], xlviii, [12], 193, [1], 192, [14] pp. 32 folding plates, index, title printed in red and black. Full blind-stamped vellum, raised bands. Bookplate of David P. Wheatland. Very good. Musschenbroek was best known as the inventor of the Leyden Jar, the original capacitor/battery. He published numerous books during his lifetime, most of them taken from his lectures on natural philosophy, mathematics, and physics. REFERENCES: Wheeler 276. (Inventory #: SW1573)