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Chapter V. The Eighteenth Century 149 



Introduction 149 



Francis Hauksbee and Electroluminescence . 149 



Prize Essays 151 



Jean Jacques Dortous de Mairan 151 



Johann Heinrich Cohausen 154 



Dufay and Reaumur ... 155 



Beccari and the Bolognian Institute 156 



Bioluminescence Discoveries 158 



Encyclopedias 159 



Furetiere's Dictionnaire 159 



Harris's Lexicon Technicum 160 



Jablonski's Lexicon 161 



Ephraim Chamber's Cyclopedia 161 



Zedler's Universal Lexicon 164 



The French Encyclopedic 165 



Encyclopedia Britannica 166 



Textbooks of Physics and Chemistry 166 



Hermann Boerhaave 167 



Neumann, Wiegleb, and Others 168 



Van's Gravesande, Van Musschenbroek, and Contem- 

 poraries 170 



Jacques Ozanam 174 



Benjamin Martin 174 



Abbe Nollet 175 



Leonard Euler 177 



George Adams 177 



Tracts and Theses on Luminescence 178 



Priestley and his Contemporaries 181 



The Phlogiston Doctrine and Luminescence . . . 186 



Crystalloluminescence 189 



Luminescence in Literature 189 



Summary 192 



Chapter VI. The Nineteenth Century 194 



Introduction 194 



Theories of Light 195 



Luigi Brugnatelli 195 



Humphry Davy 196 



Thomas Young 198 



Prize Essays 199 



