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Since in the discovery of secret things and in the investigation of hidden causes, stronger reasons are obtained from sure experiments and demonstrated arguments than from probable conjectures and the opinions of philosophical speculators of the common sort; therefore to the end that the noble substance of that great loadstone, our common mother (the earth), still quite unknown, and also the forces extraordinary and exalted of this globe may the better be understood, we have decided first to begin with the common stony and ferruginous matter, and magnetic bodies, and the parts of the earth that we may handle and may perceive with the senses; then to proceed with plain magnetic experiments, and to penetrate to the inner parts of the earth. (Preface) In former times when philosophy, still rude and uncultured, was involved in the murkiness of errors and ignorances, a few of the virtues and properties of things were, it is true, known and understood: in the world of plants and herbs all was confusion, mining was undeveloped, and mineralogy neglected. | |
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This is an omnibus of scientific works by William Gilbert, Galileo Galilei, and William Harvey. It should not be combined with any of the individual works, which are: - On the Loadstone and Magnetic Bodies, by William Gilbert
- Dialogues Concerning the Two New Sciences, by Galileo Galilei
- On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals, by William Harvey
- On the Circulation of Blood, by William Harvey
- On the Generation of Animals, by William Harvey
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It includes ON THE LOADSTONE AND MAGNETIC BODIES AND ON THE GREAT MAGNET THE EARTH by William Gilbert, and DIALOGUES CONCERNING THE TWO NEW SCIENCES by Galileo, and AN ANATOMICAL DISQUISITION ON THE MOTION OF THE HEART AND THE BLOOD IN ANIMALS, THE FIRST AND THE SECOND ANATOMICAL DISQUISITION ON THE CIRCULATION OF THE BLOOD, ANATOMICAL EXERCISES ON THE GENERATION OF ANIMALS by William Harvey. | |
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