De magnete, magneticisque corporibus, et de magno magnete tellure; Physiologia nova, plurimis & argumentis, & experimentis demonstrata
by GILBERT, William
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FIRST EDITION of the first great scientific book printed in England. "Gilbert coined the terms 'electricity', 'electric force' and 'electric attraction' and may rightly be considered the founder of electrical science" (PMM); further, he "provided the only fully developed theory dealing with all five of the then known magnetic movements and the first comprehensive discussion of magnetism since the thirteenth-century Letter on the Magnet of Peter Peregrinus" (DSB).
De magnete exemplifies pre-Baconian experimental philosophy by supporting new theories with empirically-derived experimental evidence, and these experiments were described in sufficient detail for the reader to recreate them. Gilbert also described his scientific instruments in great detail, including new ones such as the 'versorium': the first instrument to be used for the study of electric phenomena. Gilbert observed that the earth was a gigantic magnet and provided a physical basis for the Copernican theory. His work was cited by Digby, Boyle, Kepler and Huygens, and Galileo drew on Gilbertian magnetism to support his belief in a Copernican heliocentric cosmology in his Dialogo.
*Christie's incorrectly states in their catalogue entry for this lot that the binding is a "reimboitage". However, this is highly unlikely unless the earlier book was also a De magnete copy. The rear free endpaper with the 17th or 18th-c manuscript note by the former owner is certainly integral part of the limp vellum binding and this note refers to two works in which Gilbert's De magnete is discussed (Digby's Nature of bodies and Leigh's Treatise of Learned Men).
Bibliography: PMM 107; Dibner 54; Horblit 41; Norman 905; Sparrow 85; Evans 26; Wellcome 2830.
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- Milestones of Science Books (DE)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 003871
- Title
- De magnete, magneticisque corporibus, et de magno magnete tellure; Physiologia nova, plurimis & argumentis, & experimentis demonstrata
- Author
- GILBERT, William
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Peter Short
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1600
- Keywords
- Physics, magnetism, electricity, magnets
- Bookseller catalogs
- Physics; Horblit - 100 Books famous in Science; PMM - Printing and the Mind of Man; Dibner - Heralds of Science;
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