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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 ..

Includes facsimile t.p. of three editions of De magnete: 1st edition, 1600; 2d edition, 1628; 3d edition, 1633. Also facsimile t.-p. of Gilbert's De munde nostro sublunari philosophia nova, 1651 · "Biographical memoir" p. ix-xxvii · "To the most learned Mr. William Gilbert ... A laudatory address concerning these books on magnetism by Edward Wright": p. xxxvi-xlv

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