| Show GREAT DISCOVERY in rn the last number of the london quarterly review we ve find a just enst tribute of praise to franklin al arago in his bis writings upon electric electricity it Y gives very little credit to franklin for making the experiment which proved the identity of electricity and lightning ile he says the the first views of franklin on the analogy of electricity and lightning were only simple simpie conjectures the sole difference between him and kollet was only reduced to the project of an experiment this sole difference P says the reviewer of lot which AT arago mak mah makes Is so little account was the grand difficulty to be overcome the resemblance senit semblance lance between lightning and electricity were too obvious to es ap pp atten doil doii ioie and the idea in fact hd had oce rd urr uirl pen gently to three or four persons if any oie 1 says would atwould undertake to demonstrate the notion it would please me much it was just here where down he ff e see what was the single link VV wanting aith alth to complete the chain chaan nor h jw w to apply it electricity WAS asther the rage ae of thedac the day and not one orie of its numerous students students coald hit upon the method any more than the ile sole difference between franklin and the rest resolves itself into this that he did that which nobody else could do this tribute to the great discovery ot of franklin contains the kernel of the matter the experiment of frankiin frinklin to prove the identity ot liv lightning elit glit hing ning r and electricity was the most an sublime ever performed rf ormed the old philosopher drawing lightning jig anin from the thunder cloud with a simple kite well weil entitles him the appellation of the lightning tn T per 1 |
