Encyclopædia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature, 10. köide,2. osaColin Macfarquhar, George Gleig A. Bell and C. Macfarquhar, 1797 |
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Page 426
... earth in the fummer of 1782 by M. Magellan , with Mr Parker's burning - glafs ; the effects of which are more powerful than those of any other , though its diameter is only 32 inches . The event feemed at firft to be unfavourable to the ...
... earth in the fummer of 1782 by M. Magellan , with Mr Parker's burning - glafs ; the effects of which are more powerful than those of any other , though its diameter is only 32 inches . The event feemed at firft to be unfavourable to the ...
Page 435
... earth itself is a magnet ; which pofition , he fays , is proved almost to a demonftration in the following manner . 1. Almost all the phenomena which may be ex- hibited with a common magnet may also be exhibited with the earth , as far ...
... earth itself is a magnet ; which pofition , he fays , is proved almost to a demonftration in the following manner . 1. Almost all the phenomena which may be ex- hibited with a common magnet may also be exhibited with the earth , as far ...
Page 436
... earth , they must be fuppofed , in order to account for the phenomena of the needle , to have their poles lying all nearly the fame way ; which can by no means be proved to be the cafe not to mention that the attraction of iron would in ...
... earth , they must be fuppofed , in order to account for the phenomena of the needle , to have their poles lying all nearly the fame way ; which can by no means be proved to be the cafe not to mention that the attraction of iron would in ...
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