Quote: Gilbert ignored the ancients and the Greeks. He avoided graces of rhetoric and verbal ornateness

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This natural philosophy (physiologia) is almost a new thing, unheard of before; ... Therefore we do not at all quote the ancients and the Greeks as our supporters, for neither can paltry Greek argumentation demonstrate the truth more subtly nor Greek terms more effectively, nor can both elucidate it better. Our doctrine of the loadstone is contradictory of most of the principles and axioms of the Greeks. Nor have we brought into this work any graces of rhetoric, any verbal ornateness, but have aimed simply at treating knotty questions about which little is known in such a style and in such terms as are needed to make what is said clearly intelligible.   Google-1   Google-2

Published before 1923

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Quote: Gilbert's doctrine of the loadstone was contradictory to most of the principles and axioms of the Greeks

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