“Experiments are intended to teach, and not to mystify.”

—  William Sturgeon

on the experiments used in his lectures on Galvanism. [William Sturgeon, A Course of Twelve Elementary Lectures on Galvanism, London : Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper, 1843, 33-34, http://www.archive.org/details/courseoftwelveel00sturrich]

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