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100 1 _aGilbert, William,
_d1544-1603
245 1 0 _aOn the magnet, magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth :
_ba new physiology, demonstrated by many arguments & experiments
246 1 _aDe magnete. English
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2010
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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500 _aWikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Magnete
500 _aRelease date is 2010-09-26
508 _aProduced by Curtis Weyant, Keith Edkins and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Posner Memorial Collection (http://posner.library.cmu.edu/Posner/))
520 _a"On the magnet, magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth" by William Gilbert is a scientific work published in 1600. Through experiments with his model Earth called the terrella, Gilbert explores magnetism and electricity, demonstrating how compass needles behave and why magnetic dip varies by latitude. He argues that Earth itself is a giant magnet, proposes magnetic explanations for astronomical phenomena, and boldly supports the Copernican view of Earth's rotation. This groundbreaking work established rigorous experimental methods while challenging ancient theories about the nature of magnetic and electrical forces. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _nOriginal publication data not identified
653 _aMagnetism -- Early works to 1800
700 1 _aThompson, Silvanus P.
_q(Silvanus Phillips),
_d1851-1916
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33810
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