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Gowin Knight. Etching by B. Wilson, 1751, after himself.

Fatal attraction : magnetic mysteries of the Enlightenment / Patricia Fara.

An extract of the minutes of the Royal Society, of February 19, 1746.

An attempt to demonstrate, that all the phoenomena [sic] in nature may be explained by two simple active principles, attraction and repulsion : wherein the attractions of cohesion, gravity, and magnetism, are shewn to be one and the same, and the phoenomena of the latter are more particularly explained / by Gowin Knight.

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An extract of the minutes of the Royal Society, of February 19, 1746.