Excerpt from Course of Lectures on Electricity: Delivered Before the Society of Arts The researches of our philosophers in a worthy manner is no easy task, and requires a special aptitude, and I have felt that to attempt such a work was a bold undertaking. Admirable works of this character on some of the sister sciences have already appeared; but in the science of electricity there has been a vacant space, which I have done my best to try to fill up. These lectures have no pretension to form an exhaustive treatise on electricity; but I trust they may be found to be a useful introduction' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.