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Message: [QUOTE="Steve Wampler, post: 3615977"] Careful - the actual title of the book in question is "The History and Present State of Electricity" - the key word being "History". Since the term "Electricity" was in common use by Priestly's time, I suspect the "experiments with electrostatics" that are described in the history could indeed have taken place before the time of Newton. I don't think Newton's contributions are being questioned, but rather the statement that people at universities at the time didn't experiment. [/QUOTE]