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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 263

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magnetized bodies would dip below the horizon, and, at thepoles, the directions would be perpendicular, as appears fromour account of the dip. The next figure shows a spherical loadstone cut in two atthe equator; all the points of the needles have been mag- … netized by pole A. The points are directed in the centre ofthe earth and between the two halves of the terrel-la, divided FIGURES SHOWING THE VARIETIES OF ROTATION. 207 in the plane of the equator as shown in the diagram. Thecase would be the same if the division were made through theplane of a…

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