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Petrus van Musschenbroek (1692–1761) and the early Leiden jar: A discussion of the neglected manuscripts
History of Science ( IF 1.1 ) Pub Date : 2021-03-18 , DOI: 10.1177/00732753211000186
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In this article, I discuss manuscript material written by Petrus van Musschenbroek (1692–1761) related to his first experiments with the Leiden jar. Despite the importance of the discovery of the Leiden jar for the history of electricity and the questions that still surround its discovery, a detailed treatment of this manuscript material is lacking in the literature. The main aim of this paper is to provide an outline of the manuscript material and to contextualize van Musschenbroek’s first experiments with the Leiden jar. I show how the experiment fits within his research program on electricity and I discuss van Musschenbroek’s initial reactions to and analysis of the phenomenon. Before doing so, I first provide a short overview of the treatment of the early history of the Leiden jar in the secondary literature. After that, I discuss van Musschenbroek’s treatment of the topic of electricity in the textbooks he published in the years before the discovery of the device. Van Musschenbroek repeatedly emphasized that not enough experimental results were available for an informed theoretical treatment of the phenomenon of electricity to be possible. I then turn to the manuscript material, where I give a general description of the contents of the manuscript and van Musschenbroek’s experimental practice. The manuscript material further confirms recent work on the Leiden jar by Silva and Heering, and provides new insights into the way van Musschenbroek himself reacted to the discovery.



中文翻译:

Petrus van Musschenbroek (1692–1761) 和早期的莱顿罐:对被忽视的手稿的讨论

在这篇文章中,我讨论了 Petrus van Musschenbroek (1692-1761) 撰写的与他对莱顿罐的第一次实验有关的手稿材料。尽管莱顿罐的发现对电力的历史很重要,而且仍然围绕着它的发现存在问题,但文献中缺乏对这份手稿材料的详细处理。本文的主要目的是提供手稿材料的大纲,并将 van Musschenbroek 的第一次实验与莱顿罐联系起来。我展示了该实验如何适合他的电学研究计划,并讨论了 van Musschenbroek 对该现象的初步反应和分析。在此之前,我首先简要概述了二级文献中对莱顿罐早期历史的处理。在那之后,我讨论了 van Musschenbroek 在发现该设备之前几年出版的教科书中对电主题的处理。Van Musschenbroek 反复强调,没有足够的实验结果可用于对电现象进行有根据的理论处理。然后我转向手稿材料,在那里我对手稿的内容和 van Musschenbroek 的实验实践进行了一般性描述。手稿材料进一步证实了 Silva 和 Heering 最近对莱顿罐的研究,并为 van Musschenbroek 本人对这一发现的反应方式提供了新的见解。Van Musschenbroek 反复强调,没有足够的实验结果可用于对电现象进行有根据的理论处理。然后我转向手稿材料,在那里我对手稿的内容和 van Musschenbroek 的实验实践进行了一般性描述。手稿材料进一步证实了 Silva 和 Heering 最近对莱顿罐的研究,并为 van Musschenbroek 本人对这一发现的反应方式提供了新的见解。Van Musschenbroek 反复强调,没有足够的实验结果可用于对电现象进行有根据的理论处理。然后我转向手稿材料,在那里我对手稿的内容和 van Musschenbroek 的实验实践进行了一般性描述。手稿材料进一步证实了 Silva 和 Heering 最近对莱顿罐的研究,并为 van Musschenbroek 本人对这一发现的反应方式提供了新的见解。

更新日期:2021-03-19
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