Lexicographical Neighbors of Terrella
Literary usage of Terrella
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. William Gilbert of Colchester, Physician of London: On the Loadstone and by William Gilbert, Paul Fleury Mottelay, Edward Wright (1893)
"But were the quadrant —being remote from the terrella—to be moved into its sphere
of influence toward the pole on a circle concentric with the ..."
2. Gilbert, of Colchester: An Elizabethan Magnetizer by Silvanus Phillips Thompson (1891)
"NEEDLES DIPPING TO THE terrella. divers regions of the ... 2), the terrella is
shown inclosed within a certain orbit of magnetic virtue, as by a surrounding ..."
3. A History of Electricity (the Intellectual Rise in Electricity) from by Park Benjamin (1895)
"GILBERT'S terrella.1 In order to prove the like nature of the earth and the
lodestone, Gilbert carved a piece of the stone into spherical form; because, ..."
4. The Diary of Samuel Pepys by Samuel Pepys, Mynors Bright, Richard Griffin Braybrooke, Henry Benjamin Wheatley (1893)
"Gilbert terrella, that is, a little, or rather a very little Earth : For it ...
Gilbert set great store by his invention of the terrella, since it led him ..."
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