Ebenezer Kinnersley Quotes

Ebenezer Kinnersley was a scientist, inventor and lecturer, specializing in the investigation of electricity. Wikipedia

✵ 30. November 1711 – 4. July 1778

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Ebenezer Kinnersley Quotes

“As the Knowledge of Nature tends to enlarge the human Mind, and give us more noble, more grand, and exalted Ideas of the AUTHOR of Nature, and if well pursu'd, seldom fails producing something useful to Man.”

Ebenezer Kinnersley

Advertisement for his Course of Experiments in Electricity, 1751.

Idea , Nature , Knowledge

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