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William Gilbert of Colchester, Physician of London: On the Loadstone and Magnetic Bodies, and on the Great Magnet the Earth William Gilbert of Colchester, Physician of London: On the Loadstone and Magnetic Bodies, and on the Great Magnet the Earth
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Gilbert tries to provide evidence of his modern approach by refining his vocabulary.
"Coition, we say, not attraction, for the term attraction has wrongfully crept into magnetic philosophy, through the ignorance of the Ancients; for where there is attraction, there force is brought in and a tyrannical violence rules." (98) Creech's translation of Lucretius holds that coition is concordance
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William Gilbert of Colchester, Physician of London: On the Loadstone and Magnetic Bodies, and on the Great Magnet the Earth