How Dangerous Is Lightning? Few can match the breadth

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1866 edition

How Dangerous Is Lightning? Few can match the breadthLightning strikes somewhere on the surface of the earth about 100 times every second, and current observations indicate a significant increase in activity in the coming years. This illustrated survey explores the history of lightning, from ancient to modern times. Mythology and observations of lightning damage constituted the extent of lightning history until the Enlightenment period, when Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Franois Dalibard, and others began