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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 338

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t ofthe figures following, the needle will now remain in equilibrium.But in an oblique position of the terrella, as in an obliquesphere and in the second figure, the needle dips at one endobliquely toward the neighboring pole, but does not rest onthe pole, nor is its dip governed by the pole, but… … the stone is uppermost, and the needle tending straight towardthe body attains the pole. The crotch in the foregoing figuresalways turns toward the north pole of the terrella, having beentouched with its north pole; the point having been touched 282 WILLIAM GILBERT. by the south pole of the…

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