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R. FRIEDIiÄNDER 8z SOHN, Berlin. 
New Acquisition : [50 
Guil. Oilbei-t, Tractatus sive Physiologia Nova / de / Magnete / Magneticisque 
corporibus et magno / Magnete tellure sex libris comprehensus / . In quibus ea 
quae ad hanc materiam spectant plurimis / et Argumentis et experimentis exactis- 
sime absolutissimeque tractantur et explicantur. / Omnia nunc diligenter recognita 
et emendatus quam ante / in lucem edita aucta et figuris illustrata opera et studio 
D. / Wolfgangi Lochmans lUD/et Mathematici / . Sedini (= Stettin), Typis 
Gotzianis 1633. 284 paginae, in Quarto, cum 11 tabulis aeri incisis et multis figuris. 
parchm. M. 100, — 
Frontispice. — Praefatio Lochmani (2 pg.). — Amicorum Acclamationes etc. In honorem etc. (1 pg.). 
— Claudianus, De Magnete (Latin poem) (3 pg.), — Praefatio Gilberti (3 pg.). — Ed. Wright: Ad Gilbertum 
(7 pg.). — Verborum quorundam interpretatio (i pg.). — Text pg. i— 232. — Errata (1 pg.). — Index capitum 
(9 pg.). — Index verborum et rerum (25 pg.). — Instructio Ligatoris {l pg.) 
William Gilbert [born at Colchester in 1540 died 1603 in London] was physician in order to the 
Queen Elisabeth and the King Jacob I. 
"Queen E. had so high a value of him, that she allowed him an annual pension to encourage his stu- 
dies. He was famed for his learning, depth in philosophy, and admirable skill in chymistry" (Ant. äWood). 
"The work is a lasting reputation for its author, Gilbert became at once the father of experimental philosophy 
in this island, and by a singular felicity and acuteness of genius the founder of theories, which have been 
revived after a lapse of ages, and are almost received into the creed of Science" (Henry Hall am). 'Gilbert's 
work contains all the fundamental facts of the science so fully examined, indeed, that even at this day we 
have very little to add to them' (W, Wh e well). 'Is one of the finest examples of inductive philosophy that 
has ever been presented to the world' (Th. Thomson). 'The father of modern electricity' (J. Priestley). 
'Der Galileo des Magnetismus. Das Werk, welches den Erdmagnetismus begründete' (J. C. Poggendorf f). 
'Kepler en avait puis6 une partie de ses id^es sur l'attraction et la physique Celeste' (J. de Lalande). 
Conrad W. Cooke (London) in an article notes the high opinion of Giibert's work entertained, more 
particularly by N. Carpenter, W. Barlowe, F. Bacon, Galileo and Humboldt, and he adds 'There is abundant 
testimony extant that this De Magnete produced a profound Sensation, not only in this country but throughout 
the then civilized world; and it is a singularly curious fact that the brilliancy of a reputation so great and so 
original should have been allowed in subsequent generations to have been lost sight of.' 
Gilbert has written another very valuable work 'De mundo nostro sublunari philosophia nova', which 
was edited by Boswell in Amsterdam, 1651, after the death of the author, and is very rare too. — 
I. De Magnete 1. edition was published: London (P. Short) 1600. small folio. 
II. 2. edition. Sedini {= Stettin) 1628. Quarto. 
[This edition seems to have been published with different frontispices, one bearing on the line preceding 
the date the words 'John Hallewordii', the other the word 'auctoris'. Both titlepages are engraved on copper.] 
2. edition. Sedini 1633. 
The same as the edition of 1628. Only the titlepage (which is printed, not engraved) bears another date 
Also published with a printed titlepage having (for the booksellers' fair) the imprint: Francofurti 1633. 
III. A (chemical) facsimile -reprint of the 1. edition has been made by Mayer & Müller 
in Berlin, in the year 1892. 240 pg. in Quarto with 1 plate and figures. bound. 
Price M. 21. 
IV. English Translation: On the Loadstone and Magnetic Bodies, and on the great 
Magnet of the Earth. A new physiology demonstrated with many arguments and 
experiments. A translation by P. F 1 e u r y M o 1 1 e 1 a y. New York and London 
1893. XVI and 368 pages, Octavo, with portrait, figures and many facsimiles. cloth. 
Price 17 s. 6 d. 
As volume 22 of the 'Odd volume Brotherhood Opuscula' has been published in 1890 by *Bro.' S. P. 
Thompson: Gilbert of Colchester. A monograph of 63 pages, in an edition of 249 copies only, which were 
distributed among the members of this small society. — See also: L, Schnaase's Giibert's Physiologia nova 
de Magnete. 2 parts. Pr. Stargard 1892—94. 16 et 12 pg. in Quarto. Price M. 2. 
The original editions are now extremely rare and much wanied. The first edi- 
tion is the rarestone, but the second has the advantage of an: "Index capitum rerum 
et verborum locupletissimus qui in priori editione desiderabatur". 
Prices of the 1. edition: Sale Libri 5 Frcs., Sale Arago 15 Frcs., Lowndes 1859: 7 s. 6 cl, 
Quaritch 1877: 28 s. 1892: 10 ^, Mayer & Müller 1892: über 300 Mark wert. 
Prices of the 2. edition: R. Friedländer & Sohn 1890: 26 Mk., Quaritch 1877: 12 s. 1893: 
5 Ig 5, Macmillan & Bowes 1894: 5 ig 5. 
Our copy is a good one, only (as all copies) spotted on the margin, owing to 
the bad paper on which the edition was printed. 
Dieser Nummer liegt ein Prospect der Verlagsbuchhandlung von M. Wilckens 
über: Dr. R. Tümp el, Die Geradflügler Mittelenropas bei. 
Red. von Wilhelm Junk in Berlin. 
Druck von Otto Dornblüth in Bernburg. 
