Biographies of contributors to the early investigation of electrical phenomena

The biographies of William Gilbert, Otto von Guericke, Stephen Gray, Francis Hauksbee, John Theophilus Desaguliers, Willem Jacob 's-Gravesande, Petrus van Musschenbroek, Christian August Hausen, Charles-Francois de Cisternay Dufay, Jean-Antoine Nollet, Ewald Georg von Kleist, Johann Heinrich Winckler, Benjamin Franklin, Leonhard Euler, Robert Symmer, Rudjer J. Boskovic, William Watson, Giambatista Beccaria, John Canton, Franz Ulrich Theodosius Aepinus, Henry Cavendish, Johan Carl Wilcke, Joseph Priestley, Charles-Augustin Coulomb, Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta, Pierre-Simon Laplace, and Tiberius Cavallo are presented.