 | Richard Lobb - Nature study - 1817 - 418 pages
...a very thin glass bowl, says, in a letter to M. Reaumur, which he wrote soon after the experiment, that he felt himself struck in his arms, shoulders,...and breast, so that he lost his breath, and was two days before he recovered from the effects of the blow and. the terror. He adds, that he would not take... | |
 | John Imison - Art - 1822 - 528 pages
...give of it. Muschenbroeck, who tried the experiment, says, that he felt himself struck in his aims, shoulders, and breast, so that he lost his breath, and was two days before he recovered from the effects of the blow and the terror. He adds, that he would not take... | |
 | Denison Olmsted - Physics - 1832 - 402 pages
...extravagant accounts of its effects. M. Muschenbroeck, a philosopher of Leyden, of much eminence, said that "he felt himself struck in his arms, shoulders, and breast, so that he lost his breath ; and it was two days before he recovered from the effects of the blow and the terror ; adding, that he would... | |
 | Denison Olmsted - Physics - 1835 - 374 pages
...extravagant accounts of its effects. M. Muschenbroeck, a philosopher of Leyden, of much eminence, said that " he felt himself struck in his arms, shoulders, and breast, so that he lost his breath ; and it was two days before he recovered from the effects of the blow and the terror ; adding, that he would... | |
 | Jeremiah Joyce - Science - 1841 - 578 pages
...Muschenbroeck first felt the shock, which was by means of a thin glass bowl, and very slight, he wrote to Reaumur, that he felt himself struck in his arms,...before he recovered from the effects of the blow. C. Perhaps he meant the fright 1 T. Terror seems to have been the effect of the shock : for he adds,... | |
 | Denison Olmsted - Physics - 1842 - 384 pages
...extravagant accounts of its effects. M. Muschenbrock, a philosopher of Ley den, of much eminence, said that " he felt himself struck in his arms, shoulders, and breast, so that he lost his breath ; and it was two days before he recovered from the effects of the blow and the terror ; adding, that he would... | |
 | Methodist Episcopal Church - 1843 - 404 pages
...specimen of the effects produced upon some of the earlier experimenters, one grave philosopher declared, that he felt himself struck in his arms, shoulders and breast, so thafhe lost his breath, and that it was two days before he recovered from the eflects of the blow and... | |
 | Henry Minchin Noad - Electric power - 1844 - 512 pages
...on himself by taking the shock from a thin glass bowl, Muschenbroek stated in a letter to Reaumer, that " he felt himself struck in his arms, shoulders,...and breast, so that he lost his breath, and was two days before he recovered from the effects of the blow and the terror," adding, "he would not take a... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Astronomy - 1844 - 370 pages
...submitted to its effects. Muschenbroek, who tried the experiment with a thin glass bowl, told his friend Reaumur, that he felt himself struck in his arms, shoulders, and breast ; that he lost his breath for a time, and did not feel himself well again for two days. He adds, that... | |
 | Jeremiah Joyce - 1846 - 456 pages
...unexpected. When M. Muschenbroek first felt the shock, which was by means of a thin glass bowl, and veiy slight, he wrote to M. Reaumur that he felt himself...before he recovered from the effects of the blow. C. Perhaps he meant the fright. T. Terror seems to have been the effect of the shock : for he adds,... | |
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Leyden, of much eminence, said that " he felt himself struck in his arms, shoulders, and breast, so that he lost his breath ; and it was two days before he recovered from the effects of the blow and the terror ; adding, that he would not take a second... 
