1036 Dr. iNGENHOUsz’s Experiments 
being applied to it ; but a refinous body, though touched 1 , 
retains flail a great ihare of its electricity. 
1 o'. A conducting body infulated, being placed within 
the fphere of aCtion of an excited non-conduCting body, 
or even in contact with it, acquires at the fame time two 
contrary electricities; viz. the part in contaCt, or very 
near the non-conduCting electrified body, acquires a 
contrary electricity to that of the non-conduCting body, 
at the fame time that the oppofite or farthermofl: extre- 
mity is poflefled of the fame electricity with the con- 
ducting body. 
11. A conducting body infulated, being in contaCt 
with another conducting body excited with either elec* 
tricity, acquires the fame electricity throughout its whole 
extenfion, or divides with this body its electricity 
equally.. 
1 a. But an infulated conducting body, being only in 
the fphere of aCtion of another electrified conducting 
body, acquires, as in the firfl: mentioned cafe, two dif- 
ferent electricities at the fame time; viz. towards the 
electrified body it acquires a contrary electricity, and at 
the oppofite extremity it acquires the fame kind of elec- 
tricity with the electrified body. 
It feems therefore to be a law of nature, that the elec- 
tric fluid which is accumulated upon a body, and finds am 
obftruCtiom 
