[114] M: p. 93.
[115] M: p. 94.
[116] M: p. 94.
[117] M: p. 97.
[118] M: p. 92 (see also p. 339). Although Gilbert does not make it explicit, this would solve the medieval problem of gravitation without resorting to a Ptolemaic universe. In addition, since coacervation is electric, and electric forces can be screened, it should have been possible to reduce the downward motion of a body by screening!
[119] M: pp. 91, 92: "This unity is, according to Pythagoras, the principle, through participation, in which a thing is said to be one" (see [footnotes 30] and [122]).
[120] "Sense" is probably too strong a term, and yet the change following contact is difficult to describe in Gilbert's phraseology without some such subjective term. See Gilbert's argument on the soul and organs of a loadstone, M: pp. 309—313.
[121] M: pp. 112, 113.
[122] Gilbert, De magnete, London, 1600, bk. 2, ch. 2, pp. 56-57.
[123] Ibid., ch. 1, pp. 45-46.