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 78
s defined as the nameof a stone with which the needle is directed. Even thisis known only by citations in later works. The mediaeval and modern Chinese encyclopoedists de- ^ Klaproth, cit. sup., 89. Biot notes the annals of Wei (235 A. D.); theofficial history of the Tsin dynasty (265 to 419 A.… … pict the south-pointing cart or chariot as represented inthe accompanying illustration, which appears in the so-called great Japanese encyclo-paedia of 1712, and originally in aChinese work of similar characterof 1341. The figure, some six-teen inches in height, was madeof jade. Within the right…
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