John Theophilus Desaguliers (1683–1744)
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Portrait of John Theophilus Desaguliers (1683–1744), mezzotint after a painting by Hans Hysing (1678–1752/1753), 1752, artist: Peter Pelham (1697–1751); source: Wikimedia Commons https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_Theophilus_Desaguliers.jpg, public domain.
John Theophilus Desaguliers (1683–1744) was a natural philosopher who was especially interested in the properties of electricity. He was the experimental assistant of Isaac Newton (1642–1727) and became a member of the Royal Society of London in 1714. His family, who were Huguenots, had fled to England when John Desaguliers was an infant.
