The intellectual rise in electricity; a history (1895)
Benjamin, Park, 1849-1922. [from old catalog] · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 284
t from that ofthe magnet. The research begins with a comparison of the poles ofthe heavens, the poles of the earth and the poles of thelodestoue; and the proposition is at once laid down thatthe poles of a magnet on the earth look toward the polesof the earth, move toward them and are subject to… … GILBERTS TERREUA.1 In order to prove the like nature of the earth and thelodestone, Gilbert carved a piece of the stone into spheri-cal form; because, as he says, that shape is the most per-fect, agrees best with the earth, which is a globe, and is 1 From the first edition of his treatise De…
Electricity · Magnetism
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