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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 262

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rected toward y^ ; for it is not thepoint A but the whole loadstone that makes the needle turn,as does the whole earth in the case of magnetic bodies turningto the earth. The figure following shows the magnetic directions in theright sphere of a loadstone and in the right sphere of theearth, also… … 1^=0=:^ <?=o=:j The next figure shows horizontal directions above thebody of the loadstone. All the points that have been madesouth by rubbing with the north pole or some point around thenorth pole A, turn to the pole A and turn away from thesouth pole B, toward which all the crotches are…

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