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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 179

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s themselves attraction is in a right line. All load-stones alike, whether spherical or oblong, have the self-samemode of turning to the poles of the world ; but it is easiest toexperiment with oblong ones. For whatever the shape, ver-ticity is present, and there are poles; but owing to… … sides, it attracts best at the vertex; for the parts convey tothe poles a greater force in right lines than in oblique. Thusdo the loadstone and the earth conform magnetic movements. POTENCY OF THE MAGNETIC FORCE. 123 CHAPTER VII. OF THE POTENCY OF THE MAGNETIC FORCE, AND OF ITSSPHERICAL EXTENSION.…

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