Michael Greer’s Reviews > De Magnete > Status Update

Gilbert tries to provide evidence of his modern approach by refining his vocabulary.
"Coition, we say, not attraction, for the term attraction has wrongfully crept into magnetic philosophy, through the ignorance of the Ancients; for where there is attraction, there force is brought in and a tyrannical violence rules." (98) Creech's translation of Lucretius holds that coition is concordance