Lecture On the Source of All Civilization And the Means of Preserving Our Civil
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Flash of lightning, etc. , etc. In Seneca are observations given about the magnifying which glass globes produce by refraction and concave mir- rors by reflection and even some other ones about the colors of the rainbow, forming themselves by prisms and about the decrease of heat in the highest regions of atmosphere. He speaks of different colors of the stars and maintains, that the comets have a regular course, and that the earth- quakes are engendered through the fire in the centre of the ter...restial globe. Plinius (23 after the c. E. ) gives us some views in his natural. 12 history about the formation of electricity by friction and about different electric appearances. The ancient literati seem, according to Plinius, to have oc- cupied themselves with conducting the lightning. He says in reference to Tullus Hostilius : (Plin. Lib. Ii : c. 53. ) " Quod scilicet fulminis evocationem imitatum parum rite Tullum Hostilium ietum fulmine. " That is, in the same moment, when he tried to carry down the lightning in the same manner as Numa, (716 b.
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