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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 387

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by which heunderstood a most subtil matter very swiftly agitated, fluid, and keeps to nocertain figure, but which suits itself to the figure of those bodies that are about 330 WILLIAM GILBERT. and, A and B remaining constant, C revolves toward D bothby natural conformity and fitness, as also for… … out, but, in the general trend of all the rest of the planets, tendsfrom west to east. For all planets have a like movement tothe east, in accordance with the succession of the zodiacalsigns, whether it be Mercury or Venus within the suns orbit, orwhether they revolve round the sun. That the earth…

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