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IT is interesting to compare the semi-prophetic speculations of Oersted as so ably stated by Prof. Silvanus Thompson in NATURE of August 29 with a theory put forward by William Higgins in a book published at Dublin in 1814. This work, entitled “Experiments and Observations on the Atomic Theory and Electrical Phenomena,” was primarily intended to prove that Dalton's theory had been, anticipated by the author in 1789,1 but some thirty pages in the early part of the book are devoted to a Statement of his views on the imponderable elements.
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See Meldrum, Chem. News, 1910, for a discussion of his claims on this point.
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N., A. William Higgins and the Imponderable Elements. Nature 90, 103 (1912). https://doi.org/10.1038/090103a0
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