De MagneteCourier Corporation, 2013 M01 31 - 427 páginas Much of modern science is based upon the theories and discoveries of William Gilbert, the brilliant English physician and physicist who was the first great experimental scientist. Gilbert was the first to use the word "electricity," to recognize mass as distinct from weight, to discover the effect of heat upon magnetic bodies, to differentiate clearly between static electricity and magnetism, and to explain phenomena of terrestrial magnetism in terms of the earth as a giant magnet. |
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... heavens. For, first, it is not reasonable to have that done by many agents which can be done by fewer, or to have the whole heavens and all the spheres (if spheres there be) of the planets and fixed stars made to revolve for the sake ...
... heaven itself. From this book of Petrus Peregrinus, Joannes Taisner Hannonius' extracted the matter Europe the peculiar fact, noticed by the Chinese astronomers as early as 837, that the tails of comets are always turned away from the ...
... heavens nigh to the pole; Scaliger, in the 131st of his Exercitationes on Cardan's work De Subtilitate, brings in a celestial cause to himself unknown, and terrestrial loadstones that have nowhere been discovered ; and seeks the cause ...
... heavens, and other like unproved paradoxes, are world-wide astray from the truth and are blindly wandering. But we do not propose just now to overturn with arguments either these their errors and impotent reasonings, or the AAVCIEWT AND ...
... heavenly colour” (Taisnier, De Matura, 1562, Eden tr. p. 11).-"It is certain, that the bluer they are, the better they are" (Porta, “Natural Magick,” 1658, Chap VII, page 191). Consult Epistola P. Peregrini De Magnete, Cap. III, and ...