DALLA BELLA, João António Noticias Historicas, e Praticas ácerca do modo de defender os edificios dos Estragos dos Raios. Lisbon Na Regia Officina Typografica 1773
8vo. (8) ff., 88 pp. With 1 folding engraved plate of scientific instruments. Contemporary calf, lower joint worn. Ownership signature on first title p. Marginal tear repaired in p. 15/16 of 2nd work.
Together with, at head of page: De vi electrica Artificiali, nempe Arte excitata. 56 pp. The second work has not been identified. Dalla Bella writes for the general reader, and stresses the advantages of equipping buildings with lightning conductors, having observed such experiments in his native Italy. Innocêncio writes that he taught Physics at the University of Coimbra, and owed his appointment to the Marques of Pombal. Innocêncio III, 288 & X, 153. Sir Francis Ronalds's Cat. p. 131.
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