Excerpt from Phosphorescence or the Emission of Light Some time had elapsed since our cobbler had set his heart upon gold-making, when, strolling one fine Sunday evening near the little eminence known as the Monte Paterno, about a league from Bologna, he picked up a stone, similar to any other stone, save perhaps in one particular, its great weight. The fact struck him. This stone possesses, thought he, one of the properties of gold. Per haps he imagined that it contained gold which might be extracted or, may be, he ...
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Excerpt from Phosphorescence or the Emission of Light Some time had elapsed since our cobbler had set his heart upon gold-making, when, strolling one fine Sunday evening near the little eminence known as the Monte Paterno, about a league from Bologna, he picked up a stone, similar to any other stone, save perhaps in one particular, its great weight. The fact struck him. This stone possesses, thought he, one of the properties of gold. Per haps he imagined that it contained gold which might be extracted or, may be, he fancied it would be capable, from its heaviness, of trans forming Vile or imperfect metals into gold, by im parting to them its characteristic property. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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