Zoistic magnetism: being the substance of two lectures, descriptive of original views and investigations respecting this mysterious agency; delivered ... at Torquay, on the 24th of April and 1st of May, 1849 / by the Rev. W. Scoresby.

  • William Scoresby
Date:
1849
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Credit: Zoistic magnetism: being the substance of two lectures, descriptive of original views and investigations respecting this mysterious agency; delivered ... at Torquay, on the 24th of April and 1st of May, 1849 / by the Rev. W. Scoresby. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    this new influence, it would be seen, assumed the dominancy,—the nearer needles were turned round, and, as he passed the same pole from north to south of the board, though at considerable elevation above it, the magnetic current in the whole series was found not only to be reversed, but to become self-sustained in the reverse direction. It might be objected, in regard to an obvious fact in Zoistic Magnetism, that the influences developed in the subject were incomparably more powerful than what appeared in the agent. But as to this, analogies could be shewn* fully ade¬ quate, he conceived, to satisfy the objection. [These analogies were shewn by the lecturer in a series of curious and original experiments, in which the apparently feeble power of the earth’s magnetism, was applied for the yielding of sources of magnetism in wires of steel, when hammered upon vertically-sustained bars of iron, such as sufficed to render these wires strongly magnetic ; and such as, in larger and more perfect arrange¬ ments, had sufficed, as he remarked, to yield power enough to magnetize a variety of instru¬ ments and machines attaining, ultimately, to the power of sustaining, attractively, weights amount¬ ing to four hundred pounds !] 2. As to the making of the limbs rigid, by the will and manipulation of the operator,—he, Dr. S., had little to say in explanation. It was obviously