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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    before obferv’d, is produced in like Manner by electrical Flame. I may perhaps be thought too mi¬ nute in fome of the before-mentioned Particulars; but in Inquiries abftrufe as thefe are, where we have fo little a priori to direct us, the greateft Atten¬ ti on muft be had to every Circum- ftance, if we are truiy debrous of in- veftigating the Laws of this furprizing Power. For, as has been faid upon a- nother Gceabon by my ever honoured Friend Martin Folkes, Efq; our moft worthy Prebdent, ‘£ that Elec^ ‘c tricity feems to furnifh an inexhau- “ bible Fund for Inquiry ; and fure ‘c Phaenomena fo various and fo won- “ derful can arife only from Caufes ve- <( ry genera 1 and extenbve, and fuch as tC muft have been debgned by the AF “ mighty Author of Nature for the “ Produdlion of very great Effefts, and “ fuch as are of great Moment to the Syftern of the Univerfe.”