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  • Gvilielmi Gilberti Colcestrensis, medici londinensis, De magnete, magneticisqve corporibvs, et de magno magnete tellure; physiologia noua plurimis et argumentis, et experimentis demonstrata / [William Gilbert].
  • Gvilielmi Gilberti Colcestrensis, medici londinensis, De magnete, magneticisqve corporibvs, et de magno magnete tellure; physiologia noua plurimis et argumentis, et experimentis demonstrata / [William Gilbert].
  • Magnes siue de arte magnetica opvs tripartitvm. Quo praeterqvam qvod vniversa magnetis natura, eiusque in omnibus artibus et scientijs vsus noua methodo explicetur, è viribus quoque et prodigiosis effectibus magneticarum, aliarumque abditarum naturae motionum in elementis, lapidibus, plantis et animalibus elucescentium, multa hucusque incognita naturæ arcana per physica, medica, chymica et mathematica omnis generis experimenta recluduntur / [Athanasius Kircher].
  • Gvilielmi Gilberti Colcestrensis, medici londinensis, De magnete, magneticisqve corporibvs, et de magno magnete tellure; physiologia noua plurimis et argumentis, et experimentis demonstrata / [William Gilbert].
  • Gvilielmi Gilberti Colcestrensis, medici londinensis, De magnete, magneticisqve corporibvs, et de magno magnete tellure; physiologia noua plurimis et argumentis, et experimentis demonstrata / [William Gilbert].
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    On the magnet / [William Gilbert].

    Gilbert, William, 1544-1603. | Date: 1958]
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    Specvlvm lapidvm / Camilli Leonardi. Cvi accessit Sympathia septem metallorum ac septem selectorum lapidum ad planetas. D. Petri Arlensis de Scudalupis.

    Leonardi, Camillo, active 1502. | Date: 1610
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    Gilbert of Colchester, father of electrical science : a reprint of the chapter on electrics from De magnete, lib. 2 / with notes by Silvanus P. Thompson.

    Gilbert, William, 1544-1603. | Date: 1903
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    Drei Bücher der magnetischen Heilkunde : worin sowohl die Theorie als Praxis dieser Wissenschaft enthalten ist, viele geheime Naturwunder geoffenbart, die bisher unbekannten Wirkungen des Lebensgeistes enthüllt und die Fundamente dieser ganzen verborgenen Kunst mit den stärksten, auf Erfahrung gestützten Beweisgründen dargestellt werden / herausgegeben von Georg Frank ; aus dem Lateinischen.

    Maxwell, William, active approximately 1676. | Date: 1855
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    On the loadstone and magnetic bodies, and on the great magnet the earth : A new physiology, demonstrated with many arguments and experiments / A translation by P. Fleury Mottelay.

    Gilbert, William, 1544-1603. | Date: 1893
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