EXPERIMENTS 
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ANIMAL ELECTRICITY. 
SECTION I. 
HE fcience of electricity, which is 
JL now in fo advanced a Bate, was 
entirely unknown to the ancients. 
The firft difcoveries relative to it, were 
rather the effeCts of accident, than of any 
exertions of human ingenuity. Acci¬ 
dent pointed out to Gray, the difference 
between conducting and non-conduCting 
fubftances. Accident difcovered to Du 
Fay the vitreous and rejinoas electricities, 
ft 
and it was by chance likevvife, that Van 
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Kleiff 
