<P> Experiments and Observations on Electricity is a mid-eighteenth century book consisting of letters from Benjamin Franklin . These letters concerned Franklin 's discoveries about the behavior of electricity based on experimentation and scientific studies . The book came in pamphlet form for the first three English editions . The last two editions were in a book volume with hard covers and a book spine . There were eleven European editions of the book : five English editions , three French editions , and a German , Italian and Latin edition . The publication was well received worldwide . It was considered America 's most important scientific book of the eighteenth century . </P>
who is the author of the science book experiments and observations on electricity published in 1751
Benjamin Franklin