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 264
e made through theplane of a tropic and the separation and distance of the twoparts were as above, with the division and separation of theloadstone through the plane of the equinoctial. For thepoints are repelled by C, attracted by D, and the needles areparallel, the poles or the verticity at both… … the points have been magnetized by A ; all the crotches below,,except the middle one, tend not in a right line but obliquely,to the loadstone, for the pole is in the middle of the planethat before was the plane of the equinoctial. All points mag-netized by parts of the loadstone away from the pole…
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