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CABEO (NICCOLO) Philosophia magnetica in qua magnetis natura penitus explicatur, et omnium quae hoc lapide cernuntur causae propriae afferuntur, FIRST EDITION, FIRST (FERRARA) ISSUE, Ferrara, Francesco Succio, 1629
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CABEO (NICCOLO)
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An important treatise on magnetism, containing the first printed account of electrical repulsion, the discovery of which is traditionally ascribed to Cabeo, professor of Moral Philosophy and Mathematics at Parma. The author discusses William Gilbert's De Magnete (1600), but his work is largely based upon an unpublished work Due trattati sopra la natura, e le qualità della calamita by the Jesuit Leonardo Garzoni (died 1592).
Provenance: Early price note "3L, 7, 10./Cost 4/6' and shelfmark 'VIII.D.6.' on front free endpaper; Royal Meteorogical Society Symons Bequest (1900), bookplate, with note of release dated 1973.



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