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... magnet as he himself had been able by reading and experiment to acquire . It is of magnetism that Peter subsequently wrote : therefore a momentary glance at Friar Bacon's teaching on the magnet is appro- priate . Bacon's Opus Majus , a ...
... magnet as he himself had been able by reading and experiment to acquire . It is of magnetism that Peter subsequently wrote : therefore a momentary glance at Friar Bacon's teaching on the magnet is appro- priate . Bacon's Opus Majus , a ...
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... magnet is cut in two , each portion becomes a complete magnet having north and south poles : and he devotes nearly a whole chapter to the discussion of the right way of putting the fragments together in one line , and in the right order ...
... magnet is cut in two , each portion becomes a complete magnet having north and south poles : and he devotes nearly a whole chapter to the discussion of the right way of putting the fragments together in one line , and in the right order ...
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... magnet should turn variously to them — and this is not the case . Therefore , he argues , ' wherever one may be , he may see with his own eyes this movement of the stone according to the place of its meridian circle . But all meridian ...
... magnet should turn variously to them — and this is not the case . Therefore , he argues , ' wherever one may be , he may see with his own eyes this movement of the stone according to the place of its meridian circle . But all meridian ...
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OFFICERS AND COUNCIL 19067 | 7 |
ERNST CURTIUS BY THOMAS HODGKIN FELLOW OF THE ACADEMY | 31 |
NEUTRAL DUTIES IN A MARITIME WAR AS ILLUSTRATED BY RECENT | 55 |
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