On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences
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The account discusses the rotation of Jupiter’s satellites, reporting the difficulty of determining their rotation because of their distance and minuteness. Sir William Herschel is credited with determining the rotation of Jupiter’s satellites through their relative brightness, observing that the satellites alternately exceed each other in brilliancy. The reported finding makes the rotation period of Jupiter’s satellites equal to their period of revolution about Jupiter, as with the moon.
The discussion of electricity says that currents moving in the same direction attract one another, while currents flowing in opposite directions repel one another. The account distinguishes common electricity, which escapes when atmospheric pressure is removed, from electro-dynamical effects that remain the same in air or a vacuum.
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- Author
- Mary Somerville
- Reading time
- About 13 hours
- Pages
- 495
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Physics
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