Monarch of all secrets
Tuesday, June 28th, 2011
Nicolaus Cabeus (1585-1650), Philosophia magnetica (Coloniae, 1629), Alte Drucke und Rara, TZ 117: 1, frontispice.
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Visual Paradigms
Wednesday, June 22nd, 2011
Johannes Kepler (1571-1630), Prodromus … mysterium cosmographicum (Tübingen: Georgius Gruppenbachius, 1596), Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Alte Drucke und Rara, AW 796, Tab. III, between p. 24-25.
Gilbert: Dealing with Obliquity and Anomaly
Tuesday, June 21st, 2011
[ZB Magnet 2] William Gilbert, De Magnete (London: Petrus Short, 1600), Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Alte Drucke und Rara, p. 238-39 (Translation, p. 356-57) *
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William Gilbert: An experiment to prove that the earth is moving
Thursday, June 9th, 2011
[ZB Magnet 2] William Gilbert, De Magnete (London: Petrus Short, 1600), Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Alte Drucke und Rara, XVI.28, p. 222-23.
William Gilbert: Magnetic spheres*
Monday, June 6th, 2011
[ZB Magnet 2] William Gilbert, De Magnete (London: Petrus Short, 1600), Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Alte Drucke und Rara, XVI.28, p. 206. (*: Translation, p. 306)
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