Physiological fragments : to which are added supplementary observations to shew that vital and chemical energies are of the same nature, and both derived from solar light / by John Bywater.

  • Bywater, John.
Date:
1824
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Credit: Physiological fragments : to which are added supplementary observations to shew that vital and chemical energies are of the same nature, and both derived from solar light / by John Bywater. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    made, the greater will be these two streams; evidently shewing they are produced or generated at the point of excitation, by the friction there is between the cylinder and the rubber. The chief object of these remarks is to shew the probability that these electrical agents are not, as some writers have sup- posed, permanent and widely diffused agents, but only occasional forces, produced by an accidental combination of circumstances; and that all the electric phenomena we be- hold arise from the efforts these newly formed agents make to restore that equilibrium which art or nature has destroyed: therefore, in our further inquiries, it will not be necessary to consider these as permanent energies, although they may, by their continual for- mation, perform an important part in many physical changes. The attractive energies we have mentioned may be recognised among