1587). GILBERTS CHAPTER ON ELECTRICS, The contribution made by Gilbert to electrical knowledge iscontained in the second chapter of the second book of his DeMagnete, and constitutes a digression interpolated into the dis-cussion of magnetic motions. Later portions of the same bookmake slight… … BOOK II., CHAPTER II. On the Attraftion of Amber, or more truly, on theAttaching of Bodies to Amber. ELEBRATED has the fame of the load-(tone and of amber ever been in thememoirs of the learned. Loadftone andalfo amber do some philofophers invokewhen in explaining many fecrets theirfenfes become…
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