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 363
ia Philosophise (ultima editio), Amsterdam, 1692,Parts 3 and 4. 358 THE INTELLECTUAL RISE IN ELECTRICITY. motion grind one upon the other, producing spheres andalso filings or parings due to mutual abrasion of the poly-gons at their angles. By this means, there comes into ex-istence the transparent… … DESCARTES.^ currents or vortices, wherein the luminous body is at thecenter and the ether surrounds it. In the solar vortex theplanets are immersed, and with it are whirled around.The similarity of Descartes conception of a solar vortexto Keplers notion of the magnetic whirlpool surrounding ^…
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