Lecture

 1 I |       trouble ourselves.~If a gold leaf, or piece of thread,
 2 I |  illustration of this than of gold leaf, because it brings
 3 I |      fall. Here is a piece of gold leaf. Now if I take a lump
 4 I |       Now if I take a lump of gold and this gold leaf, and
 5 I |       a lump of gold and this gold leaf, and let them fall
 6 I |      you see that the lump of gold - the sovereign or coin -
 7 I |     fall much faster than the gold leaf. But why? They are
 8 I |        But why? They are both gold, whether sovereign or gold
 9 I |    gold, whether sovereign or gold leaf. Why should they not
10 I |    where we have the piece of gold so extended and enlarged
11 I |        however, show you that gold leaf does fall as fast when
12 I |      for if I take a piece of gold leaf and hang it in the
13 I |       of a bottle so that the gold, and the bottle, and the
14 I |   chance of falling, then the gold leaf will fall as fast as
15 I |     the bottle containing the gold leaf to a string, and set
16 I |      hard as I please and the gold leaf will not be disturbed,
17 I |    experiment: if I raise the gold leaf in this way [pulling
18 I |    you will perceive that the gold leaf is not in the least
19 I | avoided, the glass bottle and gold leaf all fall exactly in
20 I |        I have hung a piece of gold leaf in the upper part of
21 I |       the top, of letting the gold leaf loose. Before we let
22 I |     were to put this piece of gold leaf, instead of the paper,
23 I |     very difficult to lay the gold leaf so flat that the air
24 I |  success of this, because the gold leaf is puckery, but will
25 I |    you will perceive that the gold leaf will fall as quickly
26 I |    falls. There! [letting the gold loose]. there it is, falling
27 I |       there it is, falling as gold should fall.~I am sorry
28 VI|       glass jar two leaves of gold, which I can cause to move
29 VI|    will connect each of these gold leaves with separate ends
30 VI|      the power will cause the gold leaves to burn away, which
31 VI|     cause these two leaves of gold to approach gradually, and
32 VI|        That strange nugget of gold, of which there is a model
33 VI|     in the natural history of gold, and which came from Ballarat,