Authority Cited: Muschenbrock [Musschenbroek]
Author name and dates: Peter Van Musschenbroek (1692-1761)
BKG Bio-tweet: Dutch scientist; Leyden jar (early capacitor); SJ uses M. definition of bolis (meteor); OED has later bolide
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: see one additional citation of this title under Colson [John]]
Author name and dates: Peter Van Musschenbroek (1692-1761)
BKG Bio-tweet: Dutch scientist; Leyden jar (early capacitor); SJ uses M. definition of bolis (meteor); OED has later bolide
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: see one additional citation of this title under Colson [John]]
- Elementa Physica (1726) trans. by Colson: PIETER VAN MUSSCHENBROEK. The Elements of Natural Philosophy ... by Peter van Musschenbroek, M.D., Professor of Mathematicks and Philosophy in the University of Leyden, Translated from the Latin by John Colson. London, 1744. 2 vols (also noted by Wimsatt, Philosophic Words, p.156); bolis (vol. 2, p.293); lightning (vol. 2, p.296); thunder (vol. 2, p.297); will (vol. 2, p.291 [BKG Note: the quotation is under Wandering Fires or Ignus Fatui," rather than "Will with a wisp"); wind (vol. 2, p.306)
- Musschenbroek (no work cited); regular;