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本杰明·富兰克林：本杰明·富兰克林自传·补录 189
本杰明·富兰克林《本杰明·富兰克林自传》· The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin · 领导
Oblig'd as we were to Mr. Collinson for his present of the tube, etc., I thought it right he should be inform'd of our success in using it, and wrote him several letters containing accounts of our experiments. He got them read in the Royal Society, where they were not at first thought worth so much notice as to be printed in their Transactions. One paper, which I wrote for Mr. Kinnersley, on the sameness of lightning with electricity, I sent to Dr. Mitchel, an acquaintance of mine, and one of the members also of that society, who wrote me word that it had been read, but was laughed at by the connoisseurs. The papers, however, being shown to Dr. Fothergill, he thought them of too much value to be stifled, and advis'd the printing of them. Mr. Collinson then gave them to Cave for publication in his Gentleman's Magazine; but he chose to print them separately in a pamphlet, and Dr. Fothergill wrote the preface. Cave, it seems, judged rightly for his profit, for by the additions that arrived after they swell'd to a quarto volume, which has had five editions, and cost him nothing for copy-money.
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定位：Additional excerpt 189 · 核对日期：2026-10-19 · 核验：短摘录
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富兰克林觉得应该告诉科林森先生他们使用他赠送的管子的成功，于是写了几封信报告实验。科林森把信拿到皇家学会宣读，起初学会认为不值得在《会刊》发表。富兰克林为金纳斯利写的一篇关于闪电与电相同的论文，寄给学会成员米切尔博士，米切尔回信说论文宣读了，但被行家们嘲笑。然而，福瑟吉尔博士看到论文后认为价值太大不能埋没，建议印刷。科林森把论文交给凯夫，在《绅士杂志》发表，但凯夫选择印成小册子，由福瑟吉尔作序。凯夫判断对了利润：后来补充内容使论文扩成四开本，出了五版，而他没付稿费。
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出自富兰克林自传，讲述他关于电的实验论文最初被皇家学会轻视，后来通过出版获得成功的过程。
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