Archive for the 'Sphere' Category

Behind Cabeus’ Frontispice: The First Image of a Magnetic Field*

Monday, July 4th, 2011

Nicolaus Cabeus (1585-1650), Philosophia magnetica (Coloniae, 1629), , Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Alte Drucke und Rara, TZ 117: 1, p. 18 (* According to: Albert Kloss, Geschichte des Magnetismus (Berlin: vde, 1994)).

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Sunday, July 3rd, 2011

Judith Albert

Thursday, June 30th, 2011

Saturday, June 25th, 2011

Friday, June 24th, 2011

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.

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Sunday, June 12th, 2011

Judith Albert

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.

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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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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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