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 213
g in place is another, therefore repul-sion and aversation are the act of the force ordering in place;but the coming together is the result of mutual attraction tocontact as well as of the force that orders in place ; i.e., it isdue to a twofold force. The ordering force is often only the… … *cut in two equal parts along the meridian, the separated partsrepel each other, if the poles be placed at a suitable even dis-tance from each other ; for they mutually repel with greatervelocity than is the case when pole is wrongly opposed to pole.Thus the half B oi a loadstone, placed near the…
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