William Gilbert (astronomer): Body

William Gilbert (astronomer) was English physician, physicist and natural philosopher. Explore interesting quotes on body.

William Gilbert (astronomer): 14 quotes 1 like

“The electric effluvia differ much from air, and as air is the earth's effluvium, so electric bodies have their own distinctive effluvia; and each peculiar effluvium has its own individual power of leading to union, its own movement to its origin, to its fount, and to the body emitting the effluvium.”

William Gilbert (astronomer) book De Magnete

English translation by Paul Fleury Mottelay (1893).
De Magnete (1600)

“How far away from the earth are those remotest of stars: they are beyond the reach of eye, or man's devices, or man's thought. What an absurdity is this motion (of spheres). He also argues for the extreme variability of the distance to the various heavenly bodies and states that situated "in thinnest aether, or in the most subtle fifth essence, or in vacuity - how shall the stars keep their places in the mighty swirl of these enormous spheres composed of a substance of which no one knows aught?”

William Gilbert (astronomer) book De Magnete

Translation by P. Fleury Mottelay (1958) p. 319-20.
De Magnete (1600), Book 6, Chapter III: Of the Daily Magnetic Rotation of the Globes

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“Neither in any if the stars, nor in the sun, nor in the planets that are most operant in the world, can organs be disntinguished or imagined by us; nevertheless, they live and endow with life small bodies at the earth's elevated points. If there is aught of which man may boast, that of a surety is soul, is mind; and the other animals, too, are ennobled by soul; even God, by whose rod all things are governed, is soul.”

William Gilbert (astronomer) book De Magnete

As quoted in Gilbert, William. 2013 ed. De Magnete https://books.google.com.mx/books?id=QsLDAgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false. Courier Corporation, pp. 130-131.
De Magnete (1600)

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