Encyclopaedia Perthensis; Or Universal Dictionary of the Arts, Sciences, Literature, &c. Intended to Supersede the Use of Other Books of Reference, Nide 8John Brown, 1816 |
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Sivu 163
... matter , muft yet occation many little vacuola between the feparated ... electric park , though it may be made vilible in all kinds of permanently ... matter of the fecond element , endeavouring to pafs out of those pores thus ftraitened ...
... matter , muft yet occation many little vacuola between the feparated ... electric park , though it may be made vilible in all kinds of permanently ... matter of the fecond element , endeavouring to pafs out of those pores thus ftraitened ...
Sivu 174
... material world , and to be a principal agent in most of the operations of nature . SECT . II . HISTORY of ELECTRICITY ... electric fub- ftances . Úr Gilbert's merit confifts in his having been at great pains to find out a number of fuch ...
... material world , and to be a principal agent in most of the operations of nature . SECT . II . HISTORY of ELECTRICITY ... electric fub- ftances . Úr Gilbert's merit confifts in his having been at great pains to find out a number of fuch ...
Sivu 175
... matter . The wires were fmaller than the filk thread , yet the electricity ... electric fubftances a perpetual attractive power , which required no kind of ... electric bodies in vatus ; and in this he determined with Mr Boyle against the ...
... matter . The wires were fmaller than the filk thread , yet the electricity ... electric fubftances a perpetual attractive power , which required no kind of ... electric bodies in vatus ; and in this he determined with Mr Boyle against the ...
Sivu 177
... electric fhocks as ftrong as they could poffibly make them . Mr Boze wished ... matter more powerfully than others . This was fuggek- ed to him by one Mr ... matter of the thunder - bolt , without noife or dan- ger , into the body of the ...
... electric fhocks as ftrong as they could poffibly make them . Mr Boze wished ... matter more powerfully than others . This was fuggek- ed to him by one Mr ... matter of the thunder - bolt , without noife or dan- ger , into the body of the ...
Sivu 179
... 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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againſt alfo almoft appear atmoſphere ball becauſe body brafs cafe caufe charge coating conductor confequence confiderable confifts cylinder defire difcharge diftance Dr PRIESTLEY Edinburgh Egypt elec electric fluid electric matter electrified electrometer experiments faid fame fays feems fenfible fent feparated ferve feveral fhall fhock fhould fide filk filver firft firſt fituation fize fmall fome fometimes foon fpark ftand ftate ftill ftrong fubftance fubject fuch fufficient fuppofed fupport furface glafs glaſs himſelf houfe inches increaſe infide inftruction inftrument infulated itſelf king laft lefs likewife manner ment metal miles moft moſt muft muſt nature neceffary negative obferved occafion oppofite outfide pafs perfon phial piece plate pofitive prefent prime conductor Ptolemy purpoſe quantity quantity of electricity reafon reft reprefented Saladin Scotland ſmall ſpark thefe themfelves ther theſe thofe thoſe tion town tricity tube ufual uſed whofe wire
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Sivu 393 - ... does as much as in him lies, break or stop the pipes whereby it is distributed to the public use and advantage of mankind. He that uses words without any clear and steady meaning, what does he but lead himself and others into errors? And he that designedly does it, ought to be looked on as an enemy to truth and knowledge.
Sivu 353 - Christ was the word that spake it, He took the bread and brake it, And what that word did make it, That I believe and take it.
Sivu 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.
Sivu 58 - Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot...
Sivu 360 - Me gentle Delia beckons from the plain, Then, hid in fhades, eludes her eager fwain ; But feigns a laugh, to fee me fearch around, ?'And by that laugh the willing fair is found.
Sivu 301 - This seems to prove that there is a limit even in the rarefaction of air, which sets bounds to its conducting power ; or, in other words, that the particles of air may be so far separated from each other as no longer to be able to transmit the electric fluid ; that if they are brought within a certain distance of each other, their conducting power begins, and continually increases...
Sivu 196 - It is imponderable, and, by its distribution, in various proportions, among the particles of matter, gives rise to the three general forms of gas, liquids and solids. The particles of water, by losing caloric, have their cohesion so much increased, that they assume the solid form of ice...
Sivu 389 - And when the people were come into the wood, behold, the honey dropped; but no man put his hand to his mouth: for the people feared the oath.
Sivu 339 - Again, a painter was desirous of drawing the elephant kept in the menagerie at Versailles in an uncommon attitude, which was that of holding his trunk raised up in the air, with his mouth open. The painter's boy, in order to keep the animal in this posture, threw fruit into his mouth ; but as he...
Sivu 237 - When a quire of paper, without any thing between the leaves, is pierced by the electrical ftroke, the two powers keep in the fame track, and make but one hole in their paffage through the paper; not but that the power from above, or that from below, fometimes darts into the paper at two or more different points, making fo many holes; but thefe generally unite before they go through the paper. They...