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

  • Benjamin Hoadly
Date:
1759
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Credit: Observations on a series of electrical experiments / By Dr. Hoadly, and Mr. Wilson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    79/96 page 76
    [ *76 ] npHE following letter to Dr. Hoadly was written at his requeft, to give him my notions upon eledricity, and of all that I had done therein. It is a kind of hif- tory of feveral appearances I have at various times * obferved in the courfe of my eledric enquiries, and in fome refpeds is nearly the fame with the matter con¬ tained in the preceding work. Yet as it is not only fhorter, but requires lefs attention, in the reading, to> underftand, I have been advifed to publifli it, and at the fame time fubjoin two other letters which were never before published, and are there referred to, as they chiefly relate to a particular fad: that I obferved in the' year 1746, concerning the eledric fluid as colleded (ini a great meafure) from the earth itfelf* 1
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