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Ambrose and Eleanor; Or, the Adventures of Two Children Deserted on an Uninhabited Island Adapted to the Perusal of Youth


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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1839 Excerpt: ... one vegetation, to another agitation, to another impulsion, etc.' Explain this more clearly, dear father, said Eleanor. Electricity, continued the Colonel, causes the vegetables to grow, agitates the air we breathe, drives the winds with more or less violence, penetrates our bodies, and gives them strength, nay health; fortifies and even preserves in us the vital principle; it renders our blood active and warm, quickens, and is perhaps the cause of its circulation. I understand this very well, said Eleanor. Well then, said the Colonel, this electrical matter, the element of every thing that exists, opposed by a current of air, kindles itself, and produces the appearance you have observed' from which cause also proceed those spontaneous fires, which we often see on the banks of morasses or lakes. 'The earth and all the bodies with which we are acquainted are supposed to contain an exceedingly subtle fluid, called the electric fluid.--Blair's Grammar of Natural and Experimental Philosophy. I comprehend this very well, said Eleanor: now if you please dear papa to tell me about the stars? Those stars, replied the' Colonel, are bodies of surprising magnitude; they are globes like the earth we inhabit, but much larger; it is their distance only that makes them appear less. Among an infinity of others, there are six called Planets, 2 which revolve, without ceasing, round that wonderful body of light the sun, which is computed to be upwards of a million of times as large as the earth. The distance of these globes from the sun, which dispenses light and heat to them all, is so great that numbers can scarcely convey an idea of it, and their velocity is 110 less amazing. Mercury, which is the planet nearest the sun, is about thirtyseven millions of miles distant from...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217555234
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 38
  • Spine Width: 2 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217555233
  • Publisher Date: 01 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 86 gr


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