See in relation to this point 1382. &c.—Dec. 1838.
The theory of induction which I am stating does not pretend to decide whether electricity be a fluid or fluids, or a mere power or condition of recognized matter. That is a question which I may be induced to consider in the next or following series of these researches.
I have traced it experimentally from a ball placed in the middle of the large cube formerly described (1173.) to the sides of the cube six feet distant, and also from the same ball placed in the middle of our large lecture-room to the walls of the room at twenty-six feet distance, the charge sustained upon the ball in these cases being solely due to induction through these distances.
See now 1685. &c.—Dec. 1838.
Mémoires de L'Institut, 1811, tom. xii. the first page 1, and the second paging 163.
Refer to 1377, 1378, 1379, 1398.—Dec. 1838.
Philosophical Transactions, 1834, p. 213.
Refer for this investigation to 1680-1698.—Dec. 1838.
Philosophical Transactions, 1834, p. 583.
These will be examined hereafter (1348. &c.).