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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 238

An illustration from 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, leaf 238
xplored by our sailors : andthe lily of the mariners compass ever points north. Of this,we are assured by the most illustrious navigators and by manyintelligent seamen. The same was pointed out to me andconfirmed by our most illustrious Neptune, Francis Drake,and by Thomas Candish [Cavendish], that… … the meridian to the poles A, B, whether the centre of the wirebe in the middle line or equator of the stone, or whether it bein any other region between equator and poles, as H, G, F, E. * 182 WILLIAM GILBERT. So the point of a magnetized needle looks north on this sideof the equator: on the other…

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