A masterpiece of early science, On the Lodestone and Magnetic Bodies, and on the Great Magnet the Earth: A New Physiology Demonstrated with Many Arguments and E

For centuries, laymen and priests, lone thinkers and philosophical schools in Greece, China, the Islamic world and Europe reflected with wisdom and perseverance

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