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A New System Explanatory Of Terrestrial Phenomena, &C.
ceeding from a point located in the Bisection of the side of an Equilateral , and consequently also placed in the Centre of the base of an Isoceles Triangle , which point again coincides with the middle point of the Semi-Diameter of a given Circle . In order to afford undoubted testification of that location , with reference to the Circle , being the position of the point whence the Magnetic Virtue issuesthe Reader is , in this place ,
, presented with an accurate delineation of a large fragment of a Natural Magnetic Rock , on which is seen the Triangle in question . The Lines , with the exception of those which are dotted , here depicted , Geologically appear in relief on a Mineral Magnet , which was procured in the Bazar of the City of Furruhabad , in the year 1 S 36 . Fig . 9 gives half the dimensions of the Stone , which amounts to five pounds in weight ; and
it will be observed that the Equilateral Triangle impressed , or rather carved in relief , on the surface of this Rock , the edges of the Lines being elevated above the level of the contiguous petrous mass , is correctly bisected in the Changing Point , or fountain whence the POWER proceeds . At this spot , marked -f , a Needle , poised in the Vertical
plane , changes its extremity towards the Stone from N to S , and vice versa . For , on being passed along the Line running from the Centre and terminating in N , the marked extremity points towards that portion of the Base of the Equilateral Triangle . But , on the other hand , the unmarked extremity of the same Needle turns to the second half of the Line which ends in S ; the mutation from N to S , and the contrary ,
being effected exactly in the middle , or -f , of the horizontal Line indicated hy the Letters N S , and forming a side of the Equilateral Triangle SNN ; and consequently , in the instance before us , this side is a Semi-Diameter of a given Circle , whose Circumference is equal to S N N , in the annexed Quadrant , the Line forming the Radius of which of course admits of extension and contraction ad infinitum . In the foregoing
example , the location of the Changing Point , by means of a Natural Magnet , has heen demonstrated in the side of au Equilateral Triangle . But in the train of reasoning , hitherto pursued , the position of the point of mutation , in the Base of the Isoceles , has been also assimilated with the Changing Spot in the side of the Equilateral . ( To be continued ?)
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
A New System Explanatory Of Terrestrial Phenomena, &C.
ceeding from a point located in the Bisection of the side of an Equilateral , and consequently also placed in the Centre of the base of an Isoceles Triangle , which point again coincides with the middle point of the Semi-Diameter of a given Circle . In order to afford undoubted testification of that location , with reference to the Circle , being the position of the point whence the Magnetic Virtue issuesthe Reader is , in this place ,
, presented with an accurate delineation of a large fragment of a Natural Magnetic Rock , on which is seen the Triangle in question . The Lines , with the exception of those which are dotted , here depicted , Geologically appear in relief on a Mineral Magnet , which was procured in the Bazar of the City of Furruhabad , in the year 1 S 36 . Fig . 9 gives half the dimensions of the Stone , which amounts to five pounds in weight ; and
it will be observed that the Equilateral Triangle impressed , or rather carved in relief , on the surface of this Rock , the edges of the Lines being elevated above the level of the contiguous petrous mass , is correctly bisected in the Changing Point , or fountain whence the POWER proceeds . At this spot , marked -f , a Needle , poised in the Vertical
plane , changes its extremity towards the Stone from N to S , and vice versa . For , on being passed along the Line running from the Centre and terminating in N , the marked extremity points towards that portion of the Base of the Equilateral Triangle . But , on the other hand , the unmarked extremity of the same Needle turns to the second half of the Line which ends in S ; the mutation from N to S , and the contrary ,
being effected exactly in the middle , or -f , of the horizontal Line indicated hy the Letters N S , and forming a side of the Equilateral Triangle SNN ; and consequently , in the instance before us , this side is a Semi-Diameter of a given Circle , whose Circumference is equal to S N N , in the annexed Quadrant , the Line forming the Radius of which of course admits of extension and contraction ad infinitum . In the foregoing
example , the location of the Changing Point , by means of a Natural Magnet , has heen demonstrated in the side of au Equilateral Triangle . But in the train of reasoning , hitherto pursued , the position of the point of mutation , in the Base of the Isoceles , has been also assimilated with the Changing Spot in the side of the Equilateral . ( To be continued ?)