Magic, pretended miracles, and remarkable natural phenomena (1855)
Religious Tract Society (Great Britain), McManus-Young Collection (Library of Congress) DLC · Philadelphia : American Sunday-School Union ; London : Religious Tract Society · leaf 63
yet thephenomena are easily explained by naturallaws. If the shorter end of a bent tube, a, w^hosebranches 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…
Magic · Miracles · Curiosities and wonders
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