Animal electricity and magnetism, &c. demonstrated after the laws of nature, with new ideas upon matter and motion : in two parts / by the Rev. John Bell, professor of that science.

  • Bell, John, professor of animal magnetism.
Date:
[1790?]
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Credit: Animal electricity and magnetism, &c. demonstrated after the laws of nature, with new ideas upon matter and motion : in two parts / by the Rev. John Bell, professor of that science. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    it would be an attraction; but if, inftead of being in one or the other, this cauie is in C. it is an intermediate cur- rent, in which that body is plunged, and the attraction or repulfion are only apparent. The caufe of the apparent attraction or repulfion lies in the relative direction of the Currents coming in and out. In a fpace where matter admits of no vacuum, there cannot exift a Current coming in without one going out; and vice verfe. Application of the General Ideas or Un- foldings of nature. There exifts in the univerfe an uniform, determined and eonftant fum of the primitive Motion impreft on Matter. That impulfion mould have fufficed to give Matter all poffible directions and progreffions of movement. (An f(A)-(An i 1 I (B)J l(B)-(B)J Every thing being full, and matter being impenetrable, if A. moves towards B. two things are neceflary; B. mud be moved and A. replaced. This propofition accounts for all the gradations and direftioas of Motion; we explain by