Prolusions*, gives an account of a chimerical correspondence between two friends by the help of a certain load-stone, which had such virtue in it, that if it touched two several needles, when one of the needles so touched began to move, the other, though... The Antiquary - Page 62edited by - 1881Full view - About this book
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| 1803 - 402 pages
...an absence of three years without this expedient. Strada, in one of his prolusions, gives an account of a chimerical correspondence between two friends...great a distance, moved at the same time, and in the same manner. He tells us, that the two friends, being each of them possessed of one of these needles,... | |
| 1803 - 494 pages
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| Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 pages
...chimerical correspondence between two friends by the help of a certain loadstone, which had such a virtue in it, that if it touched two several needles,...great a distance, moved at the same time, and in the same manner. He tells us, that the two friends, being each of them possessed of one of these needles,... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1804 - 524 pages
...hand in a speculation of one of my predecessors. Strada, in the person of Lucretius, gives an account of a chimerical correspondence between two friends,...by the help of a certain loadstone, which had such a virtue in it, that, if it touched two several needles^ •when one of the needles so touched began... | |
| 1804 - 498 pages
...in a speculation of one of my predecessors '.. Strada, in the person of Lucretius, gives an account of a chimerical correspondence between two friends,...by the help of a certain loadstone, which had such a virtue in it, that if it touched two several needles, when oneof the needles so touched began to... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 296 pages
...absence of three years without this expedient. Strada, in one of his Prolusions*, gives an account of a chimerical correspondence between two friends...help of a certain load-stone, which had such virtue iu it, that if it touched two several needles, when one of the needles so touched began to move, tlie... | |
| 1810 - 350 pages
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| Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - 1810 - 384 pages
...of three years without this expedient. Strada, in one of his prolusions (Pro. 6.), gives an account of a chimerical correspondence between two friends by the help of a certain loadstone, which had No. 241. THE SPECTATOR. 251 such virtue in it, that if it touched two several needles, when one of... | |
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