 At length being at Clapham, where there is, on the common, a large pond, which I observed one day to be very rough with the wind, I fetched out a cruet of oil, and dropped a little of it on the water. I saw it spread itself with surprising swiftness upon...  Physics at Surfaces - Page 1by Andrew Zangwill - 1988 - 454 pagesLimited preview - About this book
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder - American literature - 1899 - 1110 pages
...the learned are apt to slight too much the knowledge of the vulgar," not to bear it in memory, and At length being at Clapham, where there is, on the...itself with surprising swiftness upon the surface; but the effect of smoothing the waves was not produced; for I had applied it first on the leeward side... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1904 - 492 pages
...revolved in my mind, and wondered to find no mention of them in our books of experimental philosophy. At length being at Clapham, where there is, on the...itself with surprising swiftness upon the surface ; but the effect of smoothing the waves was not produced; for I had applied it first on the leeward... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1906 - 662 pages
...revolved in my mind, and wondered to find no mention of them in our books of experimental philosophy. At length being at Clapham, where there is, on the...itself with surprising swiftness upon the surface; but the effect of smoothing the waves was not produced; for I had applied it first on the leeward side... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Biography & Autobiography - 1974 - 260 pages
...revolved in my mind, and wondered to find no mention of them in our books of experimental philosophy. At length being at Clapham, where there is, on the...itself with surprising swiftness upon the surface; but the effect of smoothing the waves was not produced ; for I had applied it first on the leeward... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, University Press of the Pacific - American essays - 2001 - 190 pages
...revolved in my mind, and wondered to find no mention of them in our books of experimental philosophy. At length being at Clapham, where there is, on the...itself with surprising swiftness upon the surface ; but the effect of smoothing the waves was not produced; for I had applied it first on the leeward... | |
 | Michael P. Branch - Nature - 2004 - 444 pages
...revolved in my mind, and wondered to find no mention of them in our books of experimental philosophy. At length being at Clapham, where there is, on the...itself with surprising swiftness upon the surface; but the effect of smoothing the waves was not produced; for I had applied it first on the leeward side... | |
 | Walter Gratzer, Walter Bruno Gratzer - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 374 pages
...pond, which I observed to be one day very rough with the wind, I fetched out a cruet of oil, and dropt a little of it on the water. I saw it spread itself with surprising swiftness upon the surface; but the effect of smoothing the waves was not produced; for I had applied it first on the leeward side... | |
 | Mark Skousen, Benjamin Franklin - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 514 pages
...pond, which I observed to be one day very rough with the wind, I fetched out a cruet of oil, and dropt a little of it on the water. I saw it spread itself with surprising swiftness upon the surface, but the effect of smoothing the waves was not produced; for I had applied it first on the leeward side... | |
 | Thomas Friedrich Haefele - 2006 - 151 pages
...that 'At length at CIapham where there is, on the common, a large pond, which I observed to be one day very rough with the wind, I fetched out a cruet of...upon the surface... the oil, though not more than a teaspoonful, produced an instant calm over a space several yards square, which spread amazingly, and... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Biography & Autobiography - 2007 - 513 pages
...pond, which I observed to be one day very rough with the wind, I fetched out a cruet of oil, and dropt a little of it on the water. I saw it spread itself with surprising swiftness upon the surface, but the effect of smoothing the waves was not produced; for I had applied it first on the leeward side... | |
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