through the dust of the room. a scrap of white paper
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(detail, front endpaper)
John Tyndall. Six Lectures on Light Delivered in America in 1872-1873.
Third edition. New York, 1901
NYPL copy, digitized Apr 18, 2006
epigram p 173
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in New York, for example, we may have our grate and fuel; but the heat
and light of our fire may be made to appear at San
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Francisco. Removing the thin wire and attaching to the severed
ends of the thick one two rods of coke, we obtain, on
bringing the rods together (as in fig. 1), a small star of p *
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distances; heat and light; light; paper; rounds; sic erat scriptum
John Tyndall