The Intellectual Rise in Electricity: A HistoryLongmans, Green & Company, 1895 - 611 páginas |
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... Compass probably not of Chinese origin . CHAPTER IV . The Dark Ages and the rise of Scholasticism . . First distinction between magnetic and electric effects drawn by St. Augustine . Patristic references to the lodestone and amber Old ...
... Compass probably not of Chinese origin . CHAPTER IV . The Dark Ages and the rise of Scholasticism . . First distinction between magnetic and electric effects drawn by St. Augustine . Patristic references to the lodestone and amber Old ...
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... Compass Flavio Gioja and his Compass card . Plagiarists of Peregrinus . · CHAPTER VIII . The revival of literature in Europe . Henry the Navigator and Portuguese voyages . Christopher Columbus and his magnetic discoveries . PAGE • · 154 ...
... Compass Flavio Gioja and his Compass card . Plagiarists of Peregrinus . · CHAPTER VIII . The revival of literature in Europe . Henry the Navigator and Portuguese voyages . Christopher Columbus and his magnetic discoveries . PAGE • · 154 ...
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... Compass Peregrinus ' floating Compass . Peregrinus ' pivoted Compass . Peregrinus ' Compass , plan view Norman's Dipping needle John Baptista Porta Jerome Cardan . Gilbert's Terrella Gilbert's armed lodestones . · • Magnetizing hot iron ...
... Compass Peregrinus ' floating Compass . Peregrinus ' pivoted Compass . Peregrinus ' Compass , plan view Norman's Dipping needle John Baptista Porta Jerome Cardan . Gilbert's Terrella Gilbert's armed lodestones . · • Magnetizing hot iron ...
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... compass needle far astray , did not lose their place among the terrors of the sea until after the seventeenth century had become well advanced . The phenomena of the lodestone are , however , two - fold . It not only attracts iron ...
... compass needle far astray , did not lose their place among the terrors of the sea until after the seventeenth century had become well advanced . The phenomena of the lodestone are , however , two - fold . It not only attracts iron ...
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... compass ; first , in its utilization of the mysterious force existing in the magnet ; greatest , in that it has contributed more than any other product of human intelligence to the progress and welfare of mankind . The obscurity which ...
... compass ; first , in its utilization of the mysterious force existing in the magnet ; greatest , in that it has contributed more than any other product of human intelligence to the progress and welfare of mankind . The obscurity which ...
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