| Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1839 - Broj stranica: 504
...A live fish about five inches in length, caught not half a minute before, was dropped into the tub. The Gymnotus instantly turned round in such a manner...representing a diameter across it; a shock passed, and there in an instant was the fish struck motionless, as if by lightning, in the midst of the waters,... | |
| James Renwick - 1840 - Broj stranica: 412
...as they were more or less favourably situated with regaid to the direction of the current. § 352. The gymnotus can stun and kill fish which are in various...instantly turned round in such a manner as to form a coil enclosing the fish, the latter representing a diameter across it. A shock passed, and, in an instant,... | |
| Rosina Maria Zornlin - 1843 - Broj stranica: 140
...live fish, about five inches in length, was dropped into the tub containing the gymnotus. The latter instantly turned round in such a manner as to form a coil, inclosing the fish ; a shock passed, and there, in an instant, was the fish struck motionless, as if by lightning, in... | |
| Michael Faraday - 1844 - Broj stranica: 334
...A live fish about five inches in length, caught not half a minute before, was dropped into the tub. The Gymnotus instantly turned round in such a manner...representing a diameter across it; a shock passed, and there in an instant was the fish struck motionless, as if by lightning, in the midst of the waters,... | |
| Henry Minchin Noad - 1844 - Broj stranica: 512
...length, caught not half a minute before, was dropped into the tub. The Gymnotus instantly turned ronnd in such a manner as to form a coil inclosing the fish,...representing a diameter across it : a shock passed, and there in an instant was the fish struck motionless, as if by lightning, in the midat of the water,... | |
| Henry M. Noad - 1849 - Broj stranica: 534
...live fish, about five inches in length, caught not half a minute before, was dropped into the tub. The Gymnotus instantly turned round in such a manner...representing a diameter across it : a shock passed, and there in an instant was the fish struck motionless, as if by lightning, in the midst of the water,... | |
| Robert Hunt - 1849 - Broj stranica: 538
...live fish, about five inches in length, caught not half a minute before, was dropped into the tub. The Gymnotus instantly turned round in such a manner...representing a diameter across it ; a shock passed, and there, in an instant, was the fish struck motionless, as if by lightning, in the midst of the waters,... | |
| 1850 - Broj stranica: 604
...live fish, about five inches in length, caught not half a minute before, was dropped into tha tub. The Gymnotus instantly turned round in such a manner...representing a diameter across it ; a shock passed, and there in an instant was the fish struck motionless, as if by lightning, in the midst of the water,... | |
| 1850 - Broj stranica: 662
...live fish, about five inches in length, caught not half a minute before, was dropped into the tub. The Gymnotus instantly turned round in such a manner...representing a diameter across it ; a shock passed, and there in an instant was the fish struck motionless, as if by lightning, in the midst of the water,... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1850 - Broj stranica: 608
...Alive fish, about five inches in length, caught not half a minute before, was dropped into the tub. The Gymnotus instantly turned round in such a manner...representing a diameter across it; a shock passed, and there in an instant was the fish struck motionless, as if by lightning, in the midst of the water,... | |
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