Encyclopaedia Perthensis; Or Universal Dictionary of the Arts, Sciences, Literature, &c. Intended to Supersede the Use of Other Books of Reference, Том 8John Brown, 1816 |
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ELECTRICITY . can already compare them , it is not improbable ,. through the machinations and defpotic power of ... ELECTRICITY , Index ; and TOURMALIN . ELECTRICIAN . n . f . One who makes elec- trical experiments , and endeavours to ...
ELECTRICITY . can already compare them , it is not improbable ,. through the machinations and defpotic power of ... ELECTRICITY , Index ; and TOURMALIN . ELECTRICIAN . n . f . One who makes elec- trical experiments , and endeavours to ...
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... ELECTRICITY , as a branch of Science , is to ftile it , -That part of natural philofophy , which proposes to investigate the nature and ef- fects of that fubtile fluid , which feems to pervade , the whole material world , and to be a ...
... ELECTRICITY , as a branch of Science , is to ftile it , -That part of natural philofophy , which proposes to investigate the nature and ef- fects of that fubtile fluid , which feems to pervade , the whole material world , and to be a ...
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... electricity . For this purpose he procured a glafs tube , 3 feet 5 inches long , and near one inch and two tenths in diameter . To each end he fitted a cork , to keep out the dust when the tube was not fed . ( 16. ) Mr GREY'S firft ...
... electricity . For this purpose he procured a glafs tube , 3 feet 5 inches long , and near one inch and two tenths in diameter . To each end he fitted a cork , to keep out the dust when the tube was not fed . ( 16. ) Mr GREY'S firft ...
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... electricity had , till the year 1746 , been ftudied by none but philofophers . Its attraction could in part be imitated by a load ftone ; its light by a phosphorus ; and , in fhort , nothing contributed to make electricity be fubject of ...
... electricity had , till the year 1746 , been ftudied by none but philofophers . Its attraction could in part be imitated by a load ftone ; its light by a phosphorus ; and , in fhort , nothing contributed to make electricity be fubject of ...
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... electric matter having enter- tance called a magnet : but electricity , contain- ed at the head , made its way out again at that ing , as it were , all within its power , alone exhi- foot . Upon the body , particularly on the left bits ...
... electric matter having enter- tance called a magnet : but electricity , contain- ed at the head , made its way out again at that ing , as it were , all within its power , alone exhi- foot . Upon the body , particularly on the left bits ...
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Страница 177 - If the iron globe is fixed on a pedeftal an inch from the table, and a glafs hoop, or a portion of a hollow glafs cylinder excited, be placed round it, the light body will move as in the circumftanccs mentioned above, and with the fame varieties.
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