VOLTA Alessandro Osservazioni Sulla capacità de’Conduttori Elettrici, e sulla Commozione che anche un semplice Conduttore é atto a dare eguale a quella della boccia di Leyden… Lettera al Sig. de Saussure. Como 20 Agosto 1778.

DSB, XIV, p,72-73 et 81; see Wheeler Gift Cat. n° 655, for a German edition 1803.

Important letter from Volta adressed to Saussure, published in the first volume of Opusculi scelti sulle scienze et sulle arti.

"As Volta's professional opportunity and acquaintance increased, his style of physics altered, at least in its public form. The change was manifest in 1778 in a published letter to his new friend Saussure on electrical capacity… The letter to Saussure applied new theoretical concepts to the design and explanation of new experiments" (DSB, XIV, pp.72-73). The same volume contains various French, English and German scientific memoirs, as well as another text by Volta entitled: Osservazioni Sul Fosforo d'Orina (pp.65-68).

From the libraries Gust.C.Gallettti, Florence, and Landau Finlay.