William Gilbert of Colchester, physician of London, On the loadstone and magnetic bodies and on the great magnet the earth. A new physiology, demonstrated with many arguments and experiments .. (1893)
Gilbert, William, 1544-1603, Mottelay, Paul Fleury, b. 1841, tr, Wright, Edward, 1558?-1615 · New York, J. Wiley & sons · leaf 151
94 WILLIAM GILBERT. for the waters surface rises around wet surfaces. A dry body-does not move toward a wet, nor a wet toward a dry, butrather they seem to go away from each other; for if all of thebody that is above the water is dry, the nearest water surfacedoes not rise but falls away with… … C, D, two rods with their projecting ends wet. Evidently thesurface of the water at C and D rises simultaneously with therods; hence the rod C, because its water, standing above thegeneral level, seeks equilibrium and union, moves with thewater toward D. On the wet rod E the water rises also, butby…
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