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MR. H. C. BROWNE, in a letter on the early use of the lightning conductor (NATURE, Aug. 15, p. 242), quotes the “Tableau de Paris”. Readers of NATURE may wish to refer to this interesting work. The “Tableau de Paris” was published between 1781 and 1788 in twelve volumes, by L. S. Mercier. The chapter quoted by Mr. Browne is of 1783. In the last volume of the collection is another chapter on the same subject, in which Mercier recants his former belief in the lightning conductor; he says: “In a city of 800,000 souls, I have not seen, in forty years, a single person killed by lightning”.
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BENN, T. Early Use of Lightning Conductor. Nature 116, 901 (1925). https://doi.org/10.1038/116901d0
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