Experiments and observations tending to illustrate the nature and properties of electricity. In one letter to Martin Folkes, Esq, President, and two to the Royal Society / by William Watson.

  • William Watson
Date:
1746
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Credit: Experiments and observations tending to illustrate the nature and properties of electricity. In one letter to Martin Folkes, Esq, President, and two to the Royal Society / by William Watson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [4« ] ftance from thefe Points, you not only feel fucceflive Blafts of Wiad from them, but hear alfo a erackling Noife. Where there are feveral Points, you ob~ ferve at the fame Time feveral Peneiis of Rays. It appears from Experiments, that belides the feveral Properties, that Eledricity is poffefs’d of peculiar to itfelf, it has fome in comraon with Magnetifm and Light. Proposition I. In common with Magnetifm, Elee- tricity counteracls, and in light Subftan- ces overcomes the Force of Gravity. Like that extraordinary Power Iike- wife, it exerts its Force m Vacuo as powerfuliy as in open Air, and this Force is extended to a conliderable Di- Aance through various Subftances of different Textures and Denfities, V. \ _ y, 't. i • 'i 'ir i; * COROLLARY,