Rough Ways Made Smooth: a Series of Familiar Essays On Scientific Subjects
Rough Ways Made Smooth: a Series of Familiar Essays On Scientific Subjects
Proctor Richard Anthony
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If the attention is Bxed on the storm cloud, as usual when a lightning storm is waichekl, every flash appears to pass from the cloud to the earth. If, on the contrary, at the moment when the attention is fixed on some terrestrial object the lightning flashes near that particular object, the flash will see^m to pass from the object to the cloud. In either case the motion is apparent only. If there is motion at all, the passage of the electric spark occupies less than the ioo,oooth part of a seco...hd, and of course it is utterly impossible that any eye could tell at which end of its track the fla«h first appeared. In every case the fla>«h seems to travel from the end to which attention was more nearly directed. . The apparent mo- Uiin corresponds to the chance direction of the eye. Digitized by V^jOOQlC S96 ROUGH WAYS MADE SMOOTIL of an intense heat along the aerial track where^the spark is seen. In the case of electricity generated by means of a gal- vanic battery, we do not note the same phetiomena unless the battery is a strong one.
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