[204] M: p. 312.
[205] Francis Bacon, op. cit. ([footnote 42]), vol. 1, Novum organum, bk. 1, ch. 95, p. 306.
[206] Ibid., ch. 54 and ch. 64 (pp. 259 and 267).
[207] Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia epidemica, ed. 3, London, 1658, bk. 2, ch. 2, 3, 4.
[208] Robert Boyle, Experiments and notes about the mechanical production of magnetism, London, 1676.
[209] Nicolaus Cabeaus, Philosophia magnetica, Ferarra, 1629.
[210] Galileo Galilei, Dialogue on the great world systems, in the translation of T. Salusbury, edited and corrected by G. de Santillana, University of Chicago Press, 1953, pp. 409-423.
[211] Cassirer, op. cit. ([footnote 3]), vol. 1, p. 359-367.
[212] Because the earth has the same nature as a celestial globe, its revolution and circular inertia require no more explanation than those of any other heavenly body.
[213] One wonders if Bruno might not have been another of the stimuli for Gilbert. The latter's interest in magnetism began shortly before Bruno visited England and lectured on his interpretation of the Copernican theory.