A history of electricity : the intellectual rise in electricity from antiquity to the days of Benjamin Franklin (1898)
Benjamin, Park, 1849-1922 · New York : J. Wiley & Sons · leaf 222
imaginary Respective point THE RESPECTIVE POINT. 217 exists. He cannot, however, fix its position until theexpert travailer have made certaine observation of theDeclyning of the Needle in other places, but considersthat it will be great or little, according as the distanceof the point Respective is… … NORMANS DIPPING NEEDI^E.* and to cause the Needle to shewe the point Respective,without any Attractive qualitie or external cause of Rockesof the Magnes stone, or by Attraction in the Heavens orelsewhere whatsoever. If one presses him further, how-ever, he announces that the end of his explanations…
Electricity · Magnetism
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