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On the magnet, magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth a new physiology, demonstrated by many arguments & experiments

Gilbert, William, 1544-1603 [Adapter]; Thompson, Silvanus P. (Silvanus Phillips), 1851-1916 [Translator]· 3 chapters· 64,118 words

same number of mathematical intervals in the horizon or winds which are distinguished by certain marks and by a lily indicating the north. The bowl is suspended in the plane of the horizon in æquilibrium in a brass ring which also is itself suspended transversely in another ri...

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1. part 32 spaces (which are commonly called _points_) are assigned to the

same number of mathematical intervals in the horizon or winds which are distinguished by certain marks and by a lily indicating the north. The bowl is suspended in the plane of...

2. Book 8 of his Paraphrase on Aristotle's _Physica_.

[165] PAGE 77, LINE 2. Page 77, line 2. _multo magis._--This is an _à fortiori_ argument. It is interesting to find Gilbert comparing the velocity of propagation of magnetic for...

3. chapter xii. of book iv., with the Table of Stars, was written by Edward

[231] PAGE 187, LINE 14. Page 187, line 16. _hic qui versus boream constitit ... meridionalis est, non borealis, quem antè nos omnes existimabant esse borealem._--Earlier on, on...