The Pennsylvania magazine, or, American monthly museum (1775) (14597182049)

Identifier: pennsylvaniamaga11775phil (find matches)

Title: The Pennsylvania magazine, or, American monthly museum

Year: 1775 (1770s)

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Publisher: (Philadelphia : R. Aitken)

Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System

Digitizing Sponsor: University of Pittsburgh Library System

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elphia, Jan. 8. An INSCRIPTION/*/^ memory of the late Dr. TOBIAS SMOLLET. This Inscription was communicated by a gentleman, who actually tran-fcribed it frojn the Monument which it adorns near Leghorn. Itwas written by Dr. Armftrong, the author of the beautiful Poemon Health. Hie ofla conduntur Tobis Smollet, Scoti; Qui, profapia generofa et antiqua natus, Prifcae virtutis exemplar emicuit; Afpe&u ingenuo, Corpore valido, Pe&ore animofo, Indole apprime benigna, Et fere fupra facultates munifica, Infig^nis. Ingenio feraci, faceto, verfatili, Omnigenae fere doClrinae mire capaci Varia fabularum dulcedine Vitam morefquc hominum, Ubertatc fumma ludens, depinxit, Adverfo, interim, nefas ! tali tantoque alumno, Nifi quo fatyrae opipare fupplebat, Seculo impio, ignavo, fatuo, Quo mufae vix nifi nothae Mecaenatulis Britannias Fovcbantur In memorium Optimi et amabilis omnino viri, Permultis amicis defiderati, Hocce marmor, Dile&iflima iimul et amantifTime conjux L. M. Sacravit. Fo,

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Defcription of a New Machine. For the Pennsylvania Maga-zine. Description of a New Elec-trical Machine, with Re*marks. (See the Plate.) THERE is no place wherethe fludy of electricity hasreceived more improvement than inPhiladelphia : But in the onjhuc-tion of the machines the Europeanphilofophers have rather excelled.The opportunity of getting glaffesblown or made in what form theypleafe, and the ealincfs of findingartifls to execute any new or im-proved invention, are perhaps thereafons of the difference* I look on a globe to be the worftform for a glafs that can be ule J,becaufe when in motion you cannottouch any great part of its furface,without having thecufhfon concave,which, if it is, will be very apt toprefs unequally; a circumflancewhich ought to be guarded againit. The cylinder is an improvementon the globe, becaufe nearly allthe furface may be touched, andthat equally, by a plain cufhion ;yet both thefe forms exclude usfrom the infidc, and only one ortwo cufhions can be app

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