Encyclopædia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature, 1. köide,2. osaColin Macfarquhar, George Gleig A. Bell and C. Macfarquhar, 1797 |
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Page 677
... animals with two different metals , which , at the fame time , touched one another either immediate ly or by the ... animals both of cold and warm blood , have been fubjected to fimilar experiments , and have exhibited the fame phenomena ...
... animals with two different metals , which , at the fame time , touched one another either immediate ly or by the ... animals both of cold and warm blood , have been fubjected to fimilar experiments , and have exhibited the fame phenomena ...
Page 688
... animals are all furnished with organs of a very peculiar ftructure , which may poffibly be fitted for the purpose of fuch a con- denfation . Befides , we apprehend it has never been in- conteftibly proved that thefe fingular animals ...
... animals are all furnished with organs of a very peculiar ftructure , which may poffibly be fitted for the purpose of fuch a con- denfation . Befides , we apprehend it has never been in- conteftibly proved that thefe fingular animals ...
Page 691
... animal life ? To us it appears rather bably fo- more probable , that the influence which incites the reign from mufcles of animals to contract in the experiments of Galvani , is fomething quite foreign to the animals them- selves ; as ...
... animal life ? To us it appears rather bably fo- more probable , that the influence which incites the reign from mufcles of animals to contract in the experiments of Galvani , is fomething quite foreign to the animals them- selves ; as ...
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