Any suggestions on data of the Dutch edition of Charles West, Lectures on the diseases of infancy and childhood (1848)

Most of us assume, what we experience or thought as facts of nature. Let me explain this based on my experience. I grow up in a remote village in India. One of the most fascinating thing I saw around the age of 10 was a Magnet, which was taken out of a dynamo of a bicycle and my fiend showed me in the school. I wanted one and nagged my parents, and finally they barrowed one form a bicycle repair shop for few days for me to play with it. One of the fascinating thing was, how small gains of iron stick to it.

After few years, in the science class I learned about the Universal gravity. If was unbelievable and fascinating again to learn that I am a miniscule gain of iron stuck to the huge magnet – The Earth. Up until that time, I was of the impression that the Earth is round disk and one could fall-off, if he runs to the edge of the Earth.

My tacit assumptions were shaped by my experiences and my friends talking about the edge of the disk shaped earth and falling off the Edge etc. If I were not a boy and not thought from the science book, I might have refused to accept that the Earth is a huge Magnet. Even it contradicted my perception of reality, I was forced to accept it, because I had no choice (but few adults supported my view, I might had refuse to accept it).