Observations on a series of electrical experiments / By Dr Hoadly, and Mr Wilson.

  • Benjamin Hoadly
Date:
1756
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Credit: Observations on a series of electrical experiments / By Dr Hoadly, and Mr Wilson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ 7& ] POSTSCRIPT. WE cannot help befpeaking the readers candour with regard to the difficulty of expreffion on fo nice a fubjeft, as well as the difficulty of defcribing with accuracy all the circumftances in thefe nice experiments which are neceflary to the produftion of the appearances we argue from; and mufl take upon us at the fame time to afifure beginners, or thofe not very converfant in making thefe experiments, that they mufl: not conclude they are not true, becaufe they cannot make them fucceed. The many and nice precautions in making all forts of eleftrical experiments with accuracy, may be feen very carefully enumerated at the beginning of Mr Wiljoiis treatife on Electricity $ and to the fame treatife we refer for the experiments, from which we deduce the cir¬ cumftances in which bodies differ in their degrees of re- fiftance to being electrified anduneledtrified; mentioned page 3 and 4 of thefe Obfervations. • „ ... \..... ,. ■ ,.. finis E R R A T A. Page 5, Line 23, forJfrogly, read frongly. Page 47, Line dele to. Line 6, dele be.
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