A manual of electricity, magnetism and meteorology (1844)
Lardner, Dionysius, 1793-1859, Walker, Charles Vincent, 1812-1882 · London Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans · leaf 436
he magnetic curves{fig. 173.). Were the magnetism of each particle utterlyabsorbed, and, as it were, latent, by its action on the nextsucceeding, some such arrangement as those shown infig. 174. might occur—a radiating or rectilineal arrange-ment, as the case might be ; but, as the position… … Fig. 1 74. k. J ercise, through their whole course, the repulsive powerof similar polarities, evidenced hy the recession of thecurves from either N. or S., with respect to each other.(397-) This isolation, so to speak, and independenceof the polarity of each particle is aptly illustrated inDr. de…
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