"Neither in any if the stars, nor in the sun, nor in the planets that are most operant in the world, can organs be dis…"

"Only on the superficies of the globes is plainly seen the host of souls and of animate existences, and their great an…"

"We, therefore, having directed our inquiry toward a cause that is manifest, sensible, and comprehended by all men, do…"

"The electric effluvia differ much from air, and as air is the earth's effluvium, so electric bodies have their own di…"

"Lucid gems are made of water; just as Crystal, which has been concreted from clear water, not always by a very great …"

"How far away from the earth are those remotest of stars: they are beyond the reach of eye, or man's devices, or man's…"

"In the discovery of hidden things and in the investigation of hidden causes, stronger reasons are obtained from sure …"

"The Alchemists have made a philosophy out of a few experiments of the furnace and Gilbert our countryman hath made a …"

"Gilbert shall live till loadstones cease to draw, Or British fleets the boundless ocean awe."

"Gilbert... repeatedly asserts the paramount value of experiments. He himself, no doubt, acted up to his own precepts;…"