The United Service Magazine |
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Author:
| Pollock, Arthur William Alsager |
ISBN: | 978-0-217-61651-5 |
Publication Date: | Aug 2009 |
Publisher: | General Books LLC
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $43.24 |
Book Description:
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ON THE OCCULT PRINCIPLE. Verum, ut opinor, habet novitatem summa, recensque Natura eat mundi, neqvie pridem exordia cepit: Quare etiam quaulam mine arti-s expoliuntur, Nunc etiam augescunt, nunc addita navunis sunt Multa. The scientific inquirers of all countries have long been tantalized by the singular...
More DescriptionPurchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ON THE OCCULT PRINCIPLE. Verum, ut opinor, habet novitatem summa, recensque Natura eat mundi, neqvie pridem exordia cepit: Quare etiam quaulam mine arti-s expoliuntur, Nunc etiam augescunt, nunc addita navunis sunt Multa. The scientific inquirers of all countries have long been tantalized by the singular effects of Magnetism, Electricity, and Galvanism, ?weird sisters, whose source is equally mysterious, powerful, useful, and incomprehensible Practising upon either of them, is like handling a Chinese puzzle, which we know can be unravelled, but the difficulty is, how to do it ? Fortunately some of the most accomplished philosophers of the day are bent upon detecting the clue; and we are persuaded that splendid discoveries await him who, in experimenting, will duly reason on each result of the investigation. Nor can we be too thankful to Oe'rsted, Arago, Herschel, Faraday, Babbage, Ritchie, Ampere, Barlow, Christie, and others, for the interesting facts which they have recently elicited; because the intimate connexion of those subtle elements has been so clearly identified, and established, that the veil which hides their origin is about to be torn away. In the mean time, we submit a sketch of the state of our present knowledge of those interesting branches of mechanical philosophy;?those who have not attended to the details, may deem this course acceptable, ?those conversant with the phenomena, can consider it in the light of a Laputan flapper. Electricity, though it has been of less practical utility to mankind than magnetism, has made a greater and more rapid progress as a science. It is an unknown and wonderful agent of attraction, repulsion, light, and shock, by which nature seems to carry on some of her most important operations; and it was supposed to have bee...