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Gilbert, W., On the loadstone and magnetic bodies and on the great magnet the Earth, 1600. Google
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translated by P.F. Mottely, John Wiley and Sons, 1893.
Published before 1923
1 ;;Quote: experiment and demonstrated arguments are more effective than conjecture and philosophical speculation
1+;;Quote: study the inner constitution of the earth by experimenting with magnetic bodies
2 ;;Quote: experiments require care and skill
2+;;Quote: experiments clearly demonstrate the truth of an hypothesis
2 ;;Quote: Gilbert ignored the ancients and the Greeks. He avoided graces of rhetoric and verbal ornateness
2+;;Quote: Gilbert's doctrine of the loadstone was contradictory to most of the principles and axioms of the Greeks
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