In January 1781, before Georg Ohm's work, Henry Cavendish experimented with Leyden jars and glass tubes of varying diameter and length filled with salt solution.

Leyden was admirably fitted for helping in this kind of work, for he was a borderer himself, and an enthusiastic lover of old ballads and folklore.

At the same time, he started to publish a scientific magazine, Notes from the Leyden Museum, as well as a vast work of 14 volumes, Muséum d ' histoire naturelle des Pays-Bas ( 1862-1880 ).

* חשבון מהלכות הכוכבים (" Calculation of the Courses of the Stars "), the sequel to the preceding work, which is found sometimes in manuscripts with the notes of Abraham ibn Ezra ( MS. 37 of Leyden, according to the catalogue of Steinschneider, p. 147 ; MS. 203 of Rome, Bibl.

Kaup was very impressed by his abilities and when he went to Leyden for a meeting he took one of Wolf's sketchbooks and showed them to Hermann Schlegel at the Natural History Museum, Leiden who immediately commissioned him to work on some plates to be used in Traite de Fauconnerie.

This work, in seven volumes, entitled Curationum Medicinalium Centuriæ Septem, passed through a number of editions ( Florence, 1551 ; Venice, 1552, 1557, 1560, 1653 ; Basel, 1556 ; Leyden, 1560, 1570 ; Paris, 1620 ; Bordeaux, 1620 ; Barcelona, 1628 ).

Beccaria had almost stumbled on a lead to the relationship between electricity and magnetism when a discharge from a Leyden jar was sent transversally through a piece of watch-spring steel making its ends magnetic.

Another theory by Yule and Burnell ( 1886 ) is based on an entry in the Catalogue of Indian Serpents from the Leyden Museum ( Ray, 1693 ) that reads: Anacondaia Zeylonensibus, id est Bubalorum aliorumque jumentorum membra conterens, meaning " the anacondaia of the Ceylonese, i. e. he that crushes the limbs of buffaloes and yoke beasts.

After three years he studied the subject in Paris ( University of Paris ), then in 1749 took the degree of Doctor of Medicine at Leyden with a thesis on blood circulation.

A Leyden jar, or Leiden jar, is a device that " stores " static electricity between two electrodes on the inside and outside of a glass jar.

It was invented independently by German cleric Ewald Georg von Kleist on 11 October 1745 and by Dutch scientist Pieter van Musschenbroek of Leiden ( Leyden ) in 1745 – 1746.

Musschenbroek communicated on it with the French scientific community where it was called the Leyden jar.

However, this phenomenon is a special effect caused by the high voltage on the Leyden jar. In the dissectible Leyden jar, charge is transferred to the surface of the glass cup by corona discharge when the jar is disassembled ; this is the source of the residual charge after the jar is reassembled.

Watching the crowds cheering him standing on the balcony of the town hall of Leyden he remarked to the burgomaster: " Now they praise me because I gained riches without the least danger ; but earlier when I risked my life in full combat they didn't even know I existed ...".

Leyden lies on the northern Massachusetts border, south of Windham County, Vermont.

Leyden is one of only a handful of towns in Massachusetts which does not have any state routes ( nearly half of such towns are on the islands of Nantucket, Martha's Vineyard and the Elizabeth Islands ).

* Prussian Settlement – A location west of West Leyden on County Road 46 at the intersection of Kirk Road.

* West Leyden – A hamlet in the eastern part of the town on NY-26 near its intersection with NY-294 and County Roads 46 and 47.

Port Leyden in the town was a port on the former Black River Canal.

* Locust Grove – A hamlet southwest of Port Leyden and on NY-12D.

* Talcottville – A hamlet west of Port Leyden and on NY-12D.

Port Leyden is located on New York State Route 12

Port Leyden Elementary School, located on Lincoln Street, educates students in grades K-5.

The Port Leyden Community Library is located on Canal Street.

The collection combs on each side are usually connected to respective Leyden jars.

Leyden was born at Denholm on the River Teviot, not far from Hawick.

Scott tells how, on one occasion, Leyden walked 40 miles to get the last two verses of a ballad, and returned at midnight, singing it all the way with his loud, harsh voice, to the wonder and consternation of the poet and his household.

Sections of the book included: Of electricity in general ; Of the electrical machine, with directions for exciting it ; The properties of electric attraction and repulsion illustrated by experiments with light bodies ; Entertaining experiments by the attraction and repulsion of light bodies, with some remarks on electrical attraction ; Of the electrical sparks ; Of the electrified points ; Of the Leyden phial ; Of the electrical battery, and the lateral explosion of charged jars ; Of the influence of pointed conductors for buildings ; To charge a plate of air ; Of the electrophorus ; Of atmospherical electricity ; Of the diffusion and subdivision of fluids by electricity ; Of the electric light in vacuo ; Of medical electricity ; Miscellaneous experiments and observations ; An essay on magnetism.

Lucas van Leyden was the only Northern European engraver to successfully continue to produce large engravings in the first third of the century.

The Commons consisted of representatives of eighteen cities, in ancient feudal order: eleven of the Southern Quarter: Dordrecht, Haarlem, Delft, Leyden, Amsterdam, Gouda, Rotterdam, Gorinchem, Schiedam, Schoonhoven and Brill ; seven of the Northern Quarter: Alkmaar, Hoorn, Enkhuizen, Edam, Monnikendam, Medemblik and Purmerend.

Leyden was also a member of the Western Health Board from 1992 – 2002, and was Chairman in 2001 – 2002.

The Elekiter relied on the various Western experiments with static electricity during the 18th century, which depended on the discovery that electricity could be generated through friction, and on the invention of the Leyden jar in the 1740s, as a convenient means to store static electricity in rather large quantities.

She lives in Johannesburg, South Africa and is married to fellow Mango Groove musician John Leyden.

In 1984, John Leyden formed Mango Groove with Andy Craggs and Aaron " Big Voice Jack " Lerole in Johannesburg, South Africa.

The detonating sparks drawn from electrical machines and from Leyden jars suggested to the early experimenters, Hauksbee, Newton, Wall, Nollet, and Gray, that lightning and thunder were due to electric discharges.

His grave, built by Nikolaus Gerhaert von Leyden, in the Stephansdom in Vienna, is one of the most important works of sculptural art of the late Middle Ages.

The idea for the Leyden jar was discovered independently by two parties: German scientist and jurist Ewald Georg von Kleist, and Dutchmen Musschenbroek and Cunaeus.

If a charged Leyden jar is discharged by shorting the inner and outer coatings and left to sit for a few minutes, the jar will recover some of its previous charge, and a second spark can be obtained from it.

* 1745: The Leyden jar invented by Ewald Georg von Kleist was the first electrical capacitor

" For these & other reasons they removed to Leyden, a fair & bewtifull citie, and of a sweete situation, but made more famous by ye universitie wherwith it is adorned, in which of late had been so many learned man.

the famous Leyden jar, a capacitor made from a glass jar, invented in Leiden by Pieter van Musschenbroek in 1746.

** The Leyden jar, a capacitor made from a glass jar, was invented here by Pieter van Musschenbroek in 1746.

It was actually first invented by Ewald Georg von Kleist the year before, but the name " Leyden jar " stuck.

" Burning English ships " by Jan van Leyden.

With contributions by the Faculty and Staff of the Strategic Studies Institute at the United States Army War College, Carlislse Barracks, Pennsylvania, USA ( Leyden: Sijthoff, 1977 )

Despite militia guards, two of the three main churches in Leiden were attacked ; in the Pieterskerk the choirbooks and altarpiece by Lucas van Leyden were preserved.

Their sketches are by Lucas van Leyden or Lucas Van Nevele.

In this branch of his practice, Matsys was greatly influenced by his contemporaries Lucas van Leyden and Jan Mabuse.

The town is bordered by Guilford and Vernon, Vermont, to the north, Northfield to the east, Gill to the southeast, Greenfield to the southwest, and Leyden to the west.

The town is bordered by Halifax and Guilford, Vermont, to the north, Leyden to the east, Greenfield to the southeast, Shelburne to the south, Charlemont to the southwest, and Heath to the west.

Leyden employs the open town meeting form of government, and is led by a board of selectmen and an administrative assistant.

On the state level, Leyden is represented in the Massachusetts House of Representatives as part of the Second Berkshire district, represented by Paul Mark, which covers central Berkshire County, as well as portions of Hampshire and Franklin Counties.

On the national level, Leyden is represented in the United States House of Representatives as part of Massachusetts's 1st congressional district, and has been represented by John Olver of Amherst since June 1991.