A history of electricity : the intellectual rise in electricity from antiquity to the days of Benjamin Franklin (1898)
Benjamin, Park, 1849-1922 · New York : J. Wiley & Sons · leaf 358
first recognized, notthat filinofs erected themselves hair-like about a stone, forPorta had done that, but that they grouped themselves ina definite way, branching from the poles, making what wenow term the magnetic spectrum. Acute as he was, Cabaeus failed to see all that was thuswritten for him.… … CAB^US PICTURE OF THE MAGNETIC SPECTRUM.^ enough to dispose of Gilberts notion and so to serve hispurpose. Cabaeus is the very Mercutio of philosophers. He iscaustic and witty—his dialectic sword is ready and needle-pointed—his mental agility is swift. He flits around Gil-bert like a wasp, stinging…
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