A treatise on the nature and property of fire. In three essays. I. Shewing the cause of vitality, and muscular motion.... II. On electricity. III. Shewing the mechanical cause of magnetism; and why the compass varies in the manner it does / by John Freke.

  • Freke, John, 1688-1756.
Date:
1752
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A treatise on the nature and property of fire. In three essays. I. Shewing the cause of vitality, and muscular motion.... II. On electricity. III. Shewing the mechanical cause of magnetism; and why the compass varies in the manner it does / by John Freke. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE » » V* C i. \ A VIIV G received a Letter in ' Favour -of my Treatife of Ele&ri- city, I think fit to publifh it, as well to gratify'my Reader from its Elegancy, as to inform his Judgment. The Letter is as follows: < • T , 'v •* > .July .i. 1751. S 'TJEhold? Sir, one of thofe Returnsfor ‘ your Favours; which, / fanfy, ‘ will foon make you grow fick of confier- ‘ ring them. Here is one more AJfejfment ‘ upon your Patience and Lime, produced i to you by your kind Prefent of your * Treatife upon EleBricity ; upon which, ‘ without entering here upon all the Merits 1 of it, I fall mention the, to me, capital ‘ one ; which is, that whiljl the Experi- ‘ mentalifts were amufing themfelves, and i the World, with the marvellous Feats, A 2 ‘ Tricks,