Description Examines the arguments of those anti-Copernicans (Kircher, Grandami, Cabeo, Zucchi, and Schott) who sought to bolster their astronomical claims by appealing to the science of magnetism.
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Llasera, Margaret;
(1981)
Magnetism and English poetry in the earlier 17th century
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Baldwin, Martha R.;
(1987)
Athanasius Kircher and the magnetic philosophy
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Book
Herr, Wiebke;
(2012)
Spät und scheinbar plötzlich: zu den Hintergründen des markanten Etablierungsverlaufs der Elektrizität (1730--1748)
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Freudenthal, Gad;
(1993)
Clandestine Stoic concepts in mechanical philosophy: The problem of electrical attraction
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Reeves, Eileen;
(2002)
Occult Sympathies and Antipathies: The Case of Early Modern Magnetism
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Home, Roderick W.;
(1985)
Force, electricity, and the powers of living matter in Newton's mature philosophy of nature
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Christoph Sander;
(2022)
How to Send a Secret Message from Rome to Paris in the Early Modern Period: Telegraphy between Magnetism, Sympathy, and Charlatanry
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Fara, Patricia;
(2005)
Fatal Attraction: Magnetic Mysteries of the Enlightenment
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Piccolino, Marco;
Finger, Stanley;
Barbara, Jean-Gaël;
(2011)
Discovering the African Freshwater “Torpedo”: Legendary Ethiopia, Religious Controversies, and a Catfish Capable of Reanimating Dead Fish
(/isis/citation/CBB001034908/)
Essay Review
Coppola, Al;
(2011)
Science/Spectacle
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Pumfrey, Stephen;
(1987)
Mechanizing magnetism in Restoration England: The decline of magnetic philosophy
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Bazerman, Charles;
(1993)
Forums of validation and forms of knowledge: The magical rhetoric of Otto von Guericke's sulfur globe
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Thesis
Pumfrey, Stephen;
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William Gilbert's magnetical philosophy, 1580-1674: The creation and dissolution of a discipline
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Hine, William L.;
(1984 (pub. 1985))
Mersenne and magnetism
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Ariotti, Piero E.;
(1981)
Benedetto Castelli's Discourse on the loadstone (1639-1640): The origin of the notion of elementary magnets similarly aligned
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Laura Georgescu;
(2017)
The Disponent Power in Gilbert's De Magnete: From Attraction to Alignment
(/isis/citation/CBB852888141/)
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Hine, William L.;
(1984)
The Mersenne-Kircher correspondence on magnetism
(/isis/citation/CBB000039176/)
Chapter
Pumfrey, Stephen;
(1990)
Neo-Aristotelianism and the magnetic philosophy
(/isis/citation/CBB000029615/)
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Pieter Present;
(2022)
Petrus van Musschenbroek (1692–1761) and the early Leiden jar: A discussion of the neglected manuscripts
(/isis/citation/CBB861829669/)
Thesis
Waddell, Mark A.;
(2006)
Theatres of the Unseen: The Society of Jesus and the Problem of the Invisiblein the Seventeenth Century
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