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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    fically thofe proceedings by the exiftence of a doubtlefs fluid, ridiculoufly denied by many, becaufe they do not fee it. The feruginous matters of the magnetic currents of the world, will acquire a property they had not before, and become Magnets or Load-ftones by the mere opera- tion of Nature. In many cafes, Art can imitate Nature, and even furpafs it-, (as an authentication,) an Artificial Magnet is fpeci- fically more active than a Natural one *. Nature, conftant in her proceedings, by giving a magne- tic virtue to a quantity of iron, does not determine its poles, but in the points which are diametiicaiiy op- pofite, and in the right line. It is natural to conclude from hence that Nature has a uniform manner of actin--, but directed by the knowledge of man, fhe is luiceptibie of encreafing that power, and of concentration by her flrength in a determined .point. That there exifts an invifible fluid from its action upon iron is well demonftrated. Is it to be fjppoled, that the Great and Supreme Architect of the World, in his fliining and profound views, would have created the general currents which apparently rule the univerfc, only to put * 1 have feen at my friend's, Mr. L'Abbe lc NoMe'«, at Paris, ar. Arti- ficial Magnet of his CompofitioD, the Activity of which1 to carry more than aoo weight.