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A New System Explanatory Of Terrestrial Phaenomena, &C.
A NEW SYSTEM EXPLANATORY OF TERRESTRIAL PHAENOMENA , & c .
BY THE T .. ATE BROTHER ROBERT TVTLER , M . D . SURGEON 36 TII RESI 3 IENT BENGAL N . I . ( Continued / mm page 22 , Vol . VI . ) FIG . Iin the accompanying platerepresents a magnetic specimen
, , ( reduced to one-half the size ) , purchased from a Bysantec , or toy-merehant , in the Basar of Futtehghur , in the year 1 S 37 ; and is said to have been brought from the Isoree Pahar , or mountain of Mahadcna , which hill , or mountain , is reported to be situated in the country of Joudpera , and distant twenty native marches from the City of Fermkabad , is , therefore , here adduced ; because from this stone the fact is verified , that , in Mineral Magnets , the mutating spot appears in the Centre ol
the Base of the former , as well as in the side of the latter Triangle . The next fact which , in order , 1 am called upon to establish , is evidence of the assertion , that the Changing Point ( determined by means of the Triangles before delineated , and appearing on the surface of Natural Rocks , to be posited in the Centre of a Line constituting the side of an Equilateral , and the Base of an Isoceles Triangle ; and , thereby , equal to the Semi-Diameter of a given Circle ) is bona fide , a Magnetic Pole , or point to which turns one of the ends of a Compass Needle . With a view of proving this fact , upon which depends the important TRUTH , that the Metaphysical point , forming the Centre Changing Point of
Magnetism , is apparently moveable within matter ; and at one time , under certain conditions , constitutes a Pole , and at another , when those conditions happen to vary , really becomes a Centre , there is , in this place , appended ( Fig . 2 , half the natural size ) a representation of a third fragment of ferruginous Rock , purchased in the City of Delhi , in the year 183 G , which exhibits the Frustrum of an isoceles Triangle , thai , has been separated from a surrounding mass of Magnetic Ore . In this specimen the Centre of the Base is a Polemarked Nwhile the opposite
, , Pole S is found in the vertex of the Frustrum ; in the same manner , that we discover a Pole N , located in the apex of the Equilateral Triangle , appearing on the surface of the first adduced specimen of those interesting and instructive Rocks . An experiment also serves to determine the apparent mobility of the Centre , within the substance of the Material Magnetic Mass . The word apparent is , in this place , employed by mebecause the Magnetic Polebeing assy mp to ticor beyond
, , , matter , fixed in space , in a point to us both unknown and inconceivable , can never change ; and , consequently , in whatever manner the explanations of a shift in the Loadstone of one , or both Poles , may be attempted , it is clear that the Pole itself is unaltered , and unalterable ; and , therefore , the circumstance of an alteration in the Pole , although to our senses the change has been effected , is yet only seeming , and not bona fide real I likewise make use of the expression , within the substance of the Rock
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A New System Explanatory Of Terrestrial Phaenomena, &C.
A NEW SYSTEM EXPLANATORY OF TERRESTRIAL PHAENOMENA , & c .
BY THE T .. ATE BROTHER ROBERT TVTLER , M . D . SURGEON 36 TII RESI 3 IENT BENGAL N . I . ( Continued / mm page 22 , Vol . VI . ) FIG . Iin the accompanying platerepresents a magnetic specimen
, , ( reduced to one-half the size ) , purchased from a Bysantec , or toy-merehant , in the Basar of Futtehghur , in the year 1 S 37 ; and is said to have been brought from the Isoree Pahar , or mountain of Mahadcna , which hill , or mountain , is reported to be situated in the country of Joudpera , and distant twenty native marches from the City of Fermkabad , is , therefore , here adduced ; because from this stone the fact is verified , that , in Mineral Magnets , the mutating spot appears in the Centre ol
the Base of the former , as well as in the side of the latter Triangle . The next fact which , in order , 1 am called upon to establish , is evidence of the assertion , that the Changing Point ( determined by means of the Triangles before delineated , and appearing on the surface of Natural Rocks , to be posited in the Centre of a Line constituting the side of an Equilateral , and the Base of an Isoceles Triangle ; and , thereby , equal to the Semi-Diameter of a given Circle ) is bona fide , a Magnetic Pole , or point to which turns one of the ends of a Compass Needle . With a view of proving this fact , upon which depends the important TRUTH , that the Metaphysical point , forming the Centre Changing Point of
Magnetism , is apparently moveable within matter ; and at one time , under certain conditions , constitutes a Pole , and at another , when those conditions happen to vary , really becomes a Centre , there is , in this place , appended ( Fig . 2 , half the natural size ) a representation of a third fragment of ferruginous Rock , purchased in the City of Delhi , in the year 183 G , which exhibits the Frustrum of an isoceles Triangle , thai , has been separated from a surrounding mass of Magnetic Ore . In this specimen the Centre of the Base is a Polemarked Nwhile the opposite
, , Pole S is found in the vertex of the Frustrum ; in the same manner , that we discover a Pole N , located in the apex of the Equilateral Triangle , appearing on the surface of the first adduced specimen of those interesting and instructive Rocks . An experiment also serves to determine the apparent mobility of the Centre , within the substance of the Material Magnetic Mass . The word apparent is , in this place , employed by mebecause the Magnetic Polebeing assy mp to ticor beyond
, , , matter , fixed in space , in a point to us both unknown and inconceivable , can never change ; and , consequently , in whatever manner the explanations of a shift in the Loadstone of one , or both Poles , may be attempted , it is clear that the Pole itself is unaltered , and unalterable ; and , therefore , the circumstance of an alteration in the Pole , although to our senses the change has been effected , is yet only seeming , and not bona fide real I likewise make use of the expression , within the substance of the Rock