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 308
-diseus for drawing an absurd conclusion to the effect thatthe resin exercises an occult selection in attracting onlythe stalks and not the leaves of the garden-basil. In likemanner he passes beyond the bounds of Cardans discoverythat the amber attraction may be cut off, and shows that ascreening… … GILBERTS EI^ECTROSCOPE.^ proved all this by actual experiment. So anxious is he toavoid even the appearance of the prevailing mysticism, socareful to forestall any possible charge of concealing hismode of operating, so Faraday-like in his desire to leavebehind him his ladder for the use of others…
Electricity · Magnetism
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