 Prolusions*, gives an account of a chimerical correspondence between two friends by the help of a certain load-stone, which had such virtue in it, that if it touched two several needles, when one of the needles so touched began to move, the other, though...  Routledge's every boy's annual - Sivu 308tekijä(t) edmund rouledge - 1883Koko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
 | William Tegg - 1878 - 346 sivua
...from which the following extract is taken : — " Strada, in one of his prolusions, gives an account of a chimerical correspondence between two friends...great a distance, moved at the same time, and in the same manner as the hours of the day are marked upon the ordinary dial-plate. They then fixed one of... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1879 - 588 sivua
...presented the following version of this fairytale: "Strada, in one of his Prolusions, gives an account of a chimerical correspondence between two friends by the help of a certain loadstone which had such a virtue in it that if it "Two faithful neecUes — from the informing touch Of the same parent stone,... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1879 - 590 sivua
...presented the following version of this fairytale: "Strada, in ono of his Prolusions, gives an account of a chimerical correspondence between two friends by the help of a certain loadstone which had such a virtue in it that if it "Two faithful neeules — from the informing touch Of the same parent stone,... | |
 | 1879 - 446 sivua
...which telegraphy is shadowed forth and anticipated. The Spectator says : " Strada gives an account of a correspondence between two friends by the help of a certain loadstone, which had such a virtue in it, that if it touched two several needles, when one of the needles so touched began to... | |
 | Zachariah Allen - 1879 - 270 sivua
...Guardian," No. 119, and in " The Spectator," No. 231, as follows : — " Lucretius gives an account of the correspondence between two friends by the help of a certain loadstone, which had such a virtue in it that, if it touched two needles, one of the needles when so touched began to move, and... | |
 | William John Johnston - 1880 - 288 sivua
...purposes in this nineteenth century. He says : " Strada, in one of his Prolusions, gives an account of a chimerical correspondence between two friends,...great a distance, moved at the same time and in the same manner. He tells us that the two friends, being each of them possessed of one of these needles,... | |
 | Edward Walford, George Latimer Apperson - 1881 - 312 sivua
...telegraph was a possibility. One description is well known, which Addison contributed to the Spectator, " of a chimerical correspondence between two friends...great a distance, moved at the same time and in the same manner." This is taken from Strada's Prolusions, but earlier writers had alluded to the supposed... | |
 | Cambridge Philosophical Society - 1883 - 508 sivua
...Addiaon, in the Spectator, No. 241 (Dec. 6, 1711). " Strada, in one of his Prolusions, gives an account of a chimerical correspondence between two friends...great a distance, moved at the same time and in the same manner. He tells us that the two friends, being each of them possessed of one of these needles,... | |
 | 1882 - 202 sivua
...Strada's sympathetic needles and alphabetical dial which are now realised. "Strada gives an account of a chimerical correspondence between two friends...certain loadstone, which had such virtue in it, that if touched by two several needles, when one of these needles so touched began to move, the other, though... | |
 | William Thomas - 1885 - 154 sivua
...means of a certain loadstone, which had such a virtue in it, that if it touched two several needles, one of the needles so touched began to move the other, though at never so great a distance, at the same time and in the same manner. He tells us that the two friends being each of them possessed... | |
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