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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 191

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e contrary verticity, but near the loadstone it has thesame ; for near the loadstone the plate is as it were part of theloadstone and has the same pole. Let A be an iron plate 134 WILLIAM GILBERT. near a pole ; B a needle with point tending toward the centreof the plate, which plate has been… … same needle. But an iron sphere interposed (if it be not too * large) attracts the point of the needle at the other side of thestone, for the verticity of that side is the same as that of theadjoining pole of the loadstone. And this turning of theneedles point (i.e., the end of it magnetized by…

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