Magic, pretended miracles, and remarkable natural phenomena (1855)
Philadelphia : American Sunday-school Union · leaf 65
yet thephenomena are easily explained by naturallaws. If the shorter end of a bent tube, a, whosebranches are of an unequal length, be placed ina basin of water, and the air is drawn from it,we have a syphon, which will decant the wa er 60 TERRESTRIAL PHENOMENA. into any vessel. Now such tubes as… … Seneca describes a spring near to Tempe,in Thessaly, the waters of which are fatal toanimals, and penetrate iron and copper. Yet,it is probable, as Dr. Thomson states, that this spring contained either free sulphuricacid, or a highly acidulous salt of that acid.This acid has been detected in a free…
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