William Gilbert of Colchester, physician of London, on the loadstone and magnetic bodies and on the great magnet the earth
Subtitle: a new physiology, demonstrated with many arguments and experiments
By: a translation by P. Fleury Mottelay
Contributors: Mottelay, Paul Fleury, 1841-; Wright, Edward, 1558?-1615
Series: Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology, and Medicine, Part I; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology, and Medicine, Part I
Publisher: J. Wiley & Sons
Published: 1893
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 368
Subjects: Magnetism
Other titles: On the loadstone and magnetic bodies and on the great magnet the earth
Work titles: De magnete
Notes: Includes facsimile t.p. of three editions of De magnete: 1st edition, 1600; 2d edition, 1628; 3d edition, 1633. Also facsimile t.-p. of Gilbert's De munde nostro sublunari philosophia nova, 1651.

"Biographical memoir" p. ix-xxvii.

"To the most learned Mr. William Gilbert ... A laudatory address concerning these books on magnetism by Edward Wright": p. xxxvi-xlv.

"Electrica, quae attrahunt aedem ratione ut electricum."

Reproduction of the original from the Huntington Library.