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CANTON, JOHN (1718-1772) , English natural philosopher, was born at Stroud, Gloucestershire, on the 31st of July 1718. At the age of nineteen, he was articled for five years as clerk to the master of a school in Spital Square, London, with whom at the end of that time he entered into partnership. In 1750 he read a paper before the Royal Society on a method of making artificial magnets, which procured him election as a fellow of the society and the award of the Copley medal
ant electrical discoveries. In 1762 and 1764 he published experiments in refutation of the decision of the Florentine Academy
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