The Works of Benjamin Franklin: Containing Several Political and Historical Tracts Not Included in Any Former Edition, and Many Letters, Official and Private, Not Hitherto Published; with Notes and a Life of the Author, Band 6Childs & Peterson, 1840 |
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... falls suddenly ; and if it be , as some say , fifteen or twenty yards diameter , it must fall with great force , and they may well fear for their ships . By one account , in the Transactions , of a spout that fell at Colne in Lancashire ...
... falls suddenly ; and if it be , as some say , fifteen or twenty yards diameter , it must fall with great force , and they may well fear for their ships . By one account , in the Transactions , of a spout that fell at Colne in Lancashire ...
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... fall from the clouds , of a mag- nitude equal to that it has acquired , when it arrives at the earth ; the same of the several pieces of hail ; be- cause they are often so large and so weighty , that we cannot conceive a possibility of ...
... fall from the clouds , of a mag- nitude equal to that it has acquired , when it arrives at the earth ; the same of the several pieces of hail ; be- cause they are often so large and so weighty , that we cannot conceive a possibility of ...
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... fall , its whole breadth pressing against the air . Let those two bodies be at- tached , one of them to one end of a ... fall at the same instant . If they take equal time in falling to the floor , it is a proof that the resistance of ...
... fall , its whole breadth pressing against the air . Let those two bodies be at- tached , one of them to one end of a ... fall at the same instant . If they take equal time in falling to the floor , it is a proof that the resistance of ...
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A Proposal for promoting Useful Knowledge among | 14 |
TO CADWALLADER COLDEN 4 November 1743 | 25 |
CADWALLADER COLDEN TO B FRANKLIN Dec 1744 | 32 |
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