TIBERIUS CAVALLO (1749-1809)
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V05,
Page 563
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
TIBERIUS See also:CAVALLO (1749-1809)
, Anglo-See also:Italian electrician and natural philosopher, was See also:born on the 30th of See also:March 1749 at See also:Naples, where his See also:father was a physician
.
In 1771 he came to See also:England with the intention of pursuing a See also:mercantile career, but he soon turned his See also:attention to scientific See also:work
.
Although he made several ingenious improvements in scientific See also:instruments, his mind. was rather imitative and See also:critical than creative
.
He published numerous See also:works on different branches of physics, including A See also:Complete See also:Treatise on See also:Electricity (1777), Treatise on the Nature and Properties of See also:Air and other permanently Elastic Fluids (1781), See also:History and Practice of Aerostation (1785), Treatise on See also:Magnetism (1787), Elements of Natural and Experimental See also:Philosophy (1803), Theory and Practice of Medical Electricity (1780), and Medical Properties of Factitious Air (1998)
.
He died in See also:London on the 21st of See also:December 1809
.
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