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" From the preceding facts we may likewise collect that this conflict performs circles; for without this condition, it seems impossible that the one part of the uniting wire, when placed below the magnetic pole, should drive it towards the east, and when... "
Library of Useful Knowledge: Natural philosophy - Page 77
1832
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The Annals of Philosophy, Volume 19

Agriculture - 1822 - 500 pages
...the magnetic pole should drive it towards the east, and when placed above it towards the west ; but it is the nature of a circle that the motions in opposite parts should have an opposite direction. M. Oersted then adds, that all the effects on the north pole mentioned in' his experiments, may be...
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Annals of Philosophy, Volume 3; Volume 19

Agriculture - 1822 - 516 pages
...the magnetic pole should drive it towards the east, and when placed above it towards the west ; but it is the nature of a circle that the motions in opposite parts should have an opposite direction. M. Oersted then adds, that all the effects on the north pole mentioned in his experiments, may be easily...
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The Edinburgh annual register, Volume 14

1823 - 792 pages
...magnetic pole, should drive it towards the east, and, when placed above it, towards the west ; it being the nature of a circle, that the motions in opposite parts should have an opposite direction. Whenever the needle is moved in a horizontal, or any other circle, from the position it naturally assumes,...
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The Edinburgh Annual Register, Volume 14

Walter Scott - Europe - 1823 - 780 pages
...magnetic pole, should drive it towards the east, and, when placed above it, towards the west ; it being the nature of a circle, that the motions in opposite parts should have an opposite direction. Whenever the needle is moved in a horizontal, or any other circle, from the position it naturally assumes,...
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The Panorama of Science: Or, a Guide to Knowledge

George Grant - Knowledge and learning - 1849 - 328 pages
...below the magnetic pole, should drive it towards the east, and when placed above it, towards the west : for it is the nature of a circle that the motions in opposite parts ehonld have an opposite direction. Besides, a motion in circles, joined with a progressive-motion,...
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The Panorama of Science, Or Guide to Knowledge

George Grant - 1852 - 260 pages
...below the magnetic pole, should drive it towards the east, and when placed above it, towards the west : for it is the nature of a circle that the motions...direction. Besides, a motion in circles, joined with a progressive-motion, according to the length of the conductor, ought to form a conchoidal or spiral...
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Michael Faraday: His Life and Work

Silvanus Phillips Thompson - Electricity - 1898 - 338 pages
...below the magnetic pole, should drive it towards the east, and when placed above it towards the west ; for it is the nature of a circle that the motions...opposite parts should have an opposite direction." — HC OEKSTED, Ann. ofj'hi/., Oct., 1820, pp. 273—276. the magnetic needle tends to set itself square...
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A History of the Theories of Aether and Electricity from the Age of ...

Edmund Taylor Whittaker - Electricity - 1910 - 502 pages
...Thomson's Annals of Philosophy, xvi (1820), p. 273; Ostwald'e Klauiker der exakUu - Wuunsthafttn, Nr. 63. ' circle that the motions in opposite parts should have an opposite direction." Oersted's discovery was described at the meeting of the French Academy on September llth, 1820, by...
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La découverte de l'électromagnétisme faite en 1820

Hans Christian Ørsted, Absalon Larsen - Electromagnetism - 1920 - 56 pages
...below the magnetic pole, should drive it towards the east, and when placed above it towards the west ; for it is the nature of a circle that the motions...the phenomena hitherto observed. . All the effects on the north pole above-mentioned are easily understood by supposing that negative electricity moves...
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Romanticism and the Sciences

Andrew Cunningham, Nicholas Jardine - Literary Criticism - 1990 - 374 pages
...placed below the magnetic pole, should drive it to the east, and when placed above it towards the west; for it is the nature of a circle that the motions...opposite parts should have an opposite direction. The centre of force does not act attractively or repulsively on the magnetic poles, but it drives the...
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