Cover of On the Loadstone and Magnetic Bodies, and on the Great Magnet the Earth

On the Loadstone and Magnetic Bodies, and on the Great Magnet the Earth

William Gilbert; translated by P. Fleury Mottelay (1893)

Public domain

Public domain (pre-1928, 1893 English translation of De Magnete, 1600). Gilbert's experimental investigation of magnetism and electrostatic attraction with the terrella, often called the first great work of experimental physics.

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