The Works of Dr. Benjamin Franklin: Consisting of Essays, Humorous, Moral, and Literary, with His LifeS. Andrus and Son, 1847 - 304 Seiten |
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... fluid , and thus to pro duce phenomena which had been hitherto unob- served . They killed small birds , and set spirits on fire . Their experiments excited the curiosity of other philosophers . Collinson , about the year 1745 , sent to ...
... fluid , and thus to pro duce phenomena which had been hitherto unob- served . They killed small birds , and set spirits on fire . Their experiments excited the curiosity of other philosophers . Collinson , about the year 1745 , sent to ...
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... fluid more dense , and of greater specific gravity than any of the solids we are acquainted with ; which therefore might swim in or upon that fluid . Thus the surface of the globe would be a shell , capable of being broken and ...
... fluid more dense , and of greater specific gravity than any of the solids we are acquainted with ; which therefore might swim in or upon that fluid . Thus the surface of the globe would be a shell , capable of being broken and ...
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... fluid on which it rests . If one might indulge imagination in supposing how such a globe was formed , I should conceive that all the elements in separate particles , being origina.ly mixed in confusion , and occupying a great space ...
... fluid on which it rests . If one might indulge imagination in supposing how such a globe was formed , I should conceive that all the elements in separate particles , being origina.ly mixed in confusion , and occupying a great space ...
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... fluid of magnetism is naturally diffused equally ; when within the influence of a magnet , it is drawn to one end of the iron , and made denser there and rarer at the other . While the iron continues soft and hot , it is only a ...
... fluid of magnetism is naturally diffused equally ; when within the influence of a magnet , it is drawn to one end of the iron , and made denser there and rarer at the other . While the iron continues soft and hot , it is only a ...
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... FLUID , ETC. Passy , June 25 , 1784 . UNIVERSAL space , as far as we know of it , seems to be filled with a subtile fluid , whose motion , or vibration , is called light . This fluid may possibly be the same with that which , be ing ...
... FLUID , ETC. Passy , June 25 , 1784 . UNIVERSAL space , as far as we know of it , seems to be filled with a subtile fluid , whose motion , or vibration , is called light . This fluid may possibly be the same with that which , be ing ...
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