BOOK XIII.. _mechanico-Chemical Sciences._

MECHANICO-CHEMICAL SCIENCES.

(CONTINUED.)

HISTORY OF GALVANISM, OR VOLTAIC ELECTRICITY.

Percusssæ gelido trepidant sub pectore fibræ, Et nova desuetis subrepens vita medullis Miscetur morti: tunc omnis palpitat artus Tenduntur nervi; nec se tellure cadaver Paullatim per membra levat; terrâque repulsum est Erectumque simul. LUCAN. vi. 752.

The form which lay before inert and dead, Sudden a piercing thrill of change o'erspread; Returning life gleams in the stony face, The fibres quiver and the sinews brace, Move the stiff limbs;--nor did the body rise With tempered strength which genial life supplies, But upright starting, its full stature held, As though the earth the supine corse repelled.

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