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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 207

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ot in the pole (asBaptista Porta deems, Chap. XXII), but in the centre of thestone and of the terrella. So, too, the earths centre is the centreof the earths magnetic movements, though magnetic bodies arenot borne direct toward the centre in the magnetic movementsave when they are attracted by the… … ference, just as at one point it seems to attract in a right line, soat another it can control and rotate the needle, provided onlythe loadstone be not of unequal power. For if at the distance LOADSTONE DOES NOT ATTRACT TO A FIXED POINT. I5I C from pole D the stone is able to attract the needle,…

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