The electric effluvia differ much from air, and as air is the earth's effluvium, so electric bodies have their own distinctive effluvia; and each peculiar effluvium has its own individual power of leading to union, its own movement to its origin, to its fount, and to the body emitting the effluvium.

— William Gilbert English translation by Paul Fleury Mottelay (1893)

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English translation by Silvanus P. Thompson (1900)

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