The intellectual rise in electricity; a history (1895)
Benjamin, Park, 1849-1922. [from old catalog] · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 152
a dis-tinction which, as I have explained, obtained in theearly compass, but which had long since ceased to exist inthe time of Magnus. Observe also that it is the lodestoneof which falsification is especially feared, because it wassupposed that if the stone were wrong, then the needlerubbed by it… … THE PUNISHMENT OF THE FALSIFIER OF THE COMPASS.1 belief that the falsification could be very easily accom-plished; and this was true, for the perpetrator, for ex-ample, might rub the needle with the lodestone so as toreverse its polarity, or so as greatly to diminish its direct-ive tendency. In…
Electricity · Magnetism
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