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 369
acts, which are contingent, imperfect, and indeter- 312 WILLIAM GILBERT. minate, but connate in them are reason, knowledge, science,judgment, whence proceed acts positive and definite from thevery foundations and beginnings of the world: these, becauseof the weakness {imbecillitaie7n) of our soul,…
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