Writings
- Norman, Robert (1721) . The newe attractive: shewing the nature, propertie, and manifold vertues of the loadstone : with the declination of the needle, touched therewith under the plaine of the horizon (Reprint ed.). http://books.google.com/books?id=j9A4AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA20&dq=The+Newe+Attractive#PPP7,M2.
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