Quote#Nature
Lucid gems are made of water; just as Crystal, which has been…
Quote byWilliam Gilbert · 1544–1603
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: De Magnete in 1600, English translation by Silvanus P. Thompson (1900)..
English (original)
Lucid gems are made of water; just as Crystal, which has been concreted from clear water, not always by a very great cold, as some used to judge, and by very hard frost, but sometimes by a less severe one, the nature of the soil fashioning it, the humour or juices being shut up in definite cavities, in the way in which spars are produced in mines.
— William Gilbert
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