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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 244

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d a true and genuine conformance of magnetic bodies innature, if they be but divided and separated ; for the parts thusdivided must needs be carried away some distance above thewhole, as later will appear. Magnetic bodies seek formal unity,and do not so much regard their own mass. Hence the part… … near without any media interposed, it acquires the originalcombination, and, being again a united portion of the whole,co-operates with the whole and readily clings in its pristineposition, while E remains looking toward A and F toward Byand there they rest unchanging. The case is the same when we…

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