Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from New Experiments on Electricity, Wherein the Causes of Thunder and Lightning as Well as the Constant State of Positive or Negative Electricity in the Air or Clouds, Are Explained Also a Description of a Doubler of Electricity, and of the Most Sensible
If light conduéting fubfiances' as bits of gold leaf be brought within an electrical atmofphere, they be come attracted towards the electrified body for the denfity of the eleé'trical atmofphere increafes towards the centre, and the power of its attraction being pro portionate to its denfity, whatever light condué'ting fubf'cances are immerfed in the extreme parts will move towards the centre till they touch the electri hed body and receive a part of its eleétricity.
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