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... former Publication ; but as I have many Things to add to the Obfervations I then made , I now take the Liberty to place the whole here in one regular View . 6. The Term Electricity in great measure explains it felf , being deriv'd from ...
... former Publication ; but as I have many Things to add to the Obfervations I then made , I now take the Liberty to place the whole here in one regular View . 6. The Term Electricity in great measure explains it felf , being deriv'd from ...
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... former , he might convey it to diftant parts ; this discovery was productive of Notwithstanding this is true , and tho ' the World is greatly indebted to him for fuch inde- fatigable Pains and Induftry ; yet it must be own'd , that it ...
... former , he might convey it to diftant parts ; this discovery was productive of Notwithstanding this is true , and tho ' the World is greatly indebted to him for fuch inde- fatigable Pains and Induftry ; yet it must be own'd , that it ...
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... former is ⚫ render'd volatile and elaftic . Together they compofe a Medium , whofe elafticity is lefs than that of pure Æther , Fire , or Spirit , in proportion to the quantity of Salts , Vapours , and heterogeneous Particles contain'd ...
... former is ⚫ render'd volatile and elaftic . Together they compofe a Medium , whofe elafticity is lefs than that of pure Æther , Fire , or Spirit , in proportion to the quantity of Salts , Vapours , and heterogeneous Particles contain'd ...
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... former I find in the Rev. and ingenious Mr. Jones's Treatife on natural Philofophy ; and that of the latter in Sir Ifaac's own Works : And firft , of the former . 71. Mr. Jones , when treating of the doctrine of mechanical Caufes ...
... former I find in the Rev. and ingenious Mr. Jones's Treatife on natural Philofophy ; and that of the latter in Sir Ifaac's own Works : And firft , of the former . 71. Mr. Jones , when treating of the doctrine of mechanical Caufes ...
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... former , as appears by the following narrative . 1105. It might feem incredible , ' faith he , that the voice of a Man might be distinctly heard at the diftance of ten or twelve miles : But a Gentleman of great veracity , who liv'd fome ...
... former , as appears by the following narrative . 1105. It might feem incredible , ' faith he , that the voice of a Man might be distinctly heard at the diftance of ten or twelve miles : But a Gentleman of great veracity , who liv'd fome ...
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Seite 147 - This kite is to be raised when a thunder-gust appears to be coming on, and the person who holds the string must stand within a door or window, or under some cover, so that the silk...
Seite 37 - ... all sensation is excited, and the members of animal bodies move at the command of the will, namely, by the vibrations of this spirit, mutually propagated along the solid filaments of the nerves, from the outward organs of sense to the brain, and from the brain into the muscles.
Seite 37 - And now we might add something concerning a certain most subtle Spirit which pervades and lies hid in all gross bodies: by the force and action of which Spirit the particles of bodies mutually attract one another at near distances, and cohere, if contiguous...
Seite 147 - As soon as any of the thunder-clouds come over the kite the pointed wire will draw the electric fire from them, and the kite, with all the twine, will be electrified, and the loose filaments of the twine will stand out every way and be attracted by an approaching finger.
Seite 395 - ... the nature of things depending on them would be changed. Water and earth composed of old worn particles and fragments of particles would not be of the same nature and texture now with water and earth composed of entire particles in the beginning.
Seite 256 - ... which philosophy seems chiefly to be founded on; such as the density and the resistance of bodies, spaces void of all bodies, and the motion of light and sounds. It remains that, from the same principles, I now demonstrate the frame of the System of the World.
Seite 21 - The qualities of bodies, which admit neither intensification nor remission of degrees, and which are found to belong to all bodies within the reach of our experiments, are to be esteemed the universal qualities of all bodies whatsoever.
Seite 147 - To the top of the upright stick of the cross is to be fixed a very sharp-pointed wire, rising a foot or more above the wood. To the end of the twine next the hand is to be tied a silk ribbon, and where the silk and twine join a key may be fastened.
Seite 139 - I wish we could derive the rest of the phenomena of nature by the same kind of reasoning from mechanical principles; for I am induced by many reasons to suspect that they may all depend upon certain forces by which the particles of bodies, by some causes hitherto unknown, are either mutually impelled towards each other, and cohere in regular figures, or are repelled and recede from each other...
Seite 71 - Body, and to be expanded through a Sphere, whose diameter is above two Feet, and yet to be able to agitate and carry up Leaf Copper, or Leaf Gold, at the distance of above a Foot from the electrick Body...