Archive for May, 2011

William Gilbert: Inclination or dip again: We come at last to that fine experiment, that wonderful movement of magnetic bodies as they dip beneath the horizon in virtue of their natural verticity. William Gilbert, De Magnete (Tranlation) p. 285.

Wednesday, May 18th, 2011

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William Gilbert: Dip again

Monday, May 16th, 2011

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Gilbert: An instrument*

Friday, May 13th, 2011

[ZB Magnet 2] William Gilbert, De Magnete (London: Petrus Short, 1600), Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Alte Drucke und Rara, XVI.28, p. 192.

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Friday, May 13th, 2011

Judith Albert

SPEEDI

Thursday, May 12th, 2011

Barbara Ellmerer

Wednesday, May 11th, 2011

Wednesday, May 11th, 2011

Barbara Ellmerer

Tuesday, May 10th, 2011

Gilbert: Direction is not produced by attraction

Tuesday, May 10th, 2011

* [ZB Magnet 2] William Gilbert, De Magnete (London: Petrus Short, 1600), Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Alte Drucke und Rara, XVI.28, p.162.

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Gilbert: Acquiring no property

Monday, May 9th, 2011

* [ZB Magnet 2] William Gilbert, De Magnete (London: Petrus Short, 1600), Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Alte Drucke und Rara, XVI.28, p.150.
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