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" Hauing made many and diuers compasses, and using alwaiea to finish and end them before I touched the needle, I found continually, that after I had touched the yrons with the stone, that presently the north point thereof would bend, or decline, downwards... "
Lectures on Natural and Experimental Philosophy: Considered in It's [sic ... - Page 467
by George Adams - 1794
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The Newe Attractive, Showing the Nature, Propertie, and Manifold Vertues of ...

Robert Norman - 1720 - 198 pages
...before i touched the needle, I found continually, that after I had touched the yrons with the Stone, that prefently the north point thereof would bend or Decline downwards under the Horizon in fome quantitic : infomucbt that to the Flie of the Compare, which before was made equall, I was ftill qonftrained...
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An Essay on Electricity: Explaining the Theory and Practice of that Useful ...

George Adams - 1787 - 600 pages
...account of the difcovery in his own words. " Having, fays he, made many and divers cornpafles, and ufmg always to finifh and end them before I touched the...counterpoife this declining, and to make it equal again. " Which effedl having many times pafied my hands without any great regard thereunto, as ignorant of...
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The Last Voyage of Capt. Sir John Ross, R.N. to the Arctic Regions: For the ...

Robert Huish - 1835 - 800 pages
...the needle, I found continually, that, after I had touched the iron with the stone, that presently the north point thereof would bend or decline downwards under the horizon in some quantity, in so much that to the fly of the compass, which before was made equal, I was still...
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The Eclectic Review, Volume 20; Volume 84

Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1846 - 810 pages
...the needle, I found continually, that after I had touched the yrons with the stone, that presently the north point thereof would bend, or decline, downwards under the horizon in some quantitie : insomuch that to the flie of the compasse, which before was made equall, I was still...
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The Eclectic review. vol. 1-New [8th]

1846 - 810 pages
...the needle, I found continually, that after I had touched the yrons with the stone, that presently the north point thereof would bend, or decline, downwards under the horizon in some quantitie : insomuch that to the flie of the compasse, which before was made equal], I was still...
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A Physical Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism, Volume 1

James Edward Henry Gordon - 1880 - 412 pages
...the needle, I found continuallie that, after I had touched the yrons with the stone, that presentlie the North point thereof would bend or decline downwards under the horizon in some quantitie ; insomuch that to the flie of the compass, which was before levell, I was still constrained...
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The Intellectual Rise in Electricity: A History

Park Benjamin - 1895 - 650 pages
...touched the needle, I found continually that after I had touched the yrons with the Stone, that presently the north point thereof would bend or Decline downwards under the Horizon in some quantitie ; insomuch that to the Flie of the Compasse which before was made equall, I was still...
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Principal Facts of the Earth's Magnetism and Methods of Determining the True ...

U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey - 1909 - 136 pages
...before I touched the needle, I found continually, that after I had touched the yrons with the Stone, that prefently the north point thereof would bend or Decline downwards under the Horizon in fome quantitie: infomuch that to the Flie of the compaffe, which before was madeequall, I was ftill conftrained...
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