Experiments and observations tending to illustrate the nature and properties of electricity. In one letter to Martin Folkes, Esq, President, and two to the Royal Society / by William Watson.

  • Watson, William, Sir, 1715-1787.
Date:
1746
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Credit: Experiments and observations tending to illustrate the nature and properties of electricity. In one letter to Martin Folkes, Esq, President, and two to the Royal Society / by William Watson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [49 ] the otlier End. This attra&ive Pow¬ er of Electricity aCts not only upon Non-eleCtrics, as Leaf-Gold, Sil ver, Thread, and fuch like, but alfo up¬ on originally EleCtrics, as Silk, dry Feathers, little Pieces of Glafs* and Relin ; it atti&ts all Bodies, that are not of the fame Standard of EleCtri- city, (if I may be aliowed the Expref- fiofi) as the excited Body from which it proceeds. I have found no Body however denfe, whofe Pores are not pervious to Eledricity by a proper Ma¬ nagement, not even Gold itielf. Proposition II» I n common with Light, Electri¬ ci ty pervades Glafs, but fuffers no Re- fra&ion therefrom ; I having from the moft exaCt Obfervations found its Di- rection to be in right Lines, and that through Glaffes of different Forms, G inclu-