Page 10. “A loadstone placed upon a small trencher of wood, floating on water, does instantly in one determinate point australize, and in the other septentrionate ... all which various and admirable effects of the loadstone, thou maiest, if thy judgement relish them, finde made good by multiplyed observations, by William Gilbert, not many yeers past, a physician in London, in his book, ‘De Magnete’: of which subject no man ever writ more judiciously or experimentally: and by whose industry the variation of the compasse may be restored....”
Page 12. “There is a book imprinted at Franekera, in the year 1611, by Vldericus Dominicus Balck, of the Lamp of Life. In which you shall finde, out of Paracelsus, the true magneticall cure of most diseases, as of the Dropsie, Gout, Jaundice, etc.”
Page 15. “Doth not the needle of the Mariner’s Compasse, through a firme glasse, closely sealed up with melted soder (in which there can be no pore or crany discovered) steer it self to the Artick pole? ... wherefore the same numericall accident streaming in one continued radius from the loadstone into the aer, passes through the glasse, and perhaps goes as farre as to touch the pole it self....”
Page 38. “Wherefore the loadstone owes its polarity to a natural inhærent faculty, flowing from its owne seminall entity, and not to any forreigne alliciency, or attractive influx transmitted from the north star. But that otherwise the loadstone may, by its own instinct, be elevated towards the Zenith, we have upon ocular demonstration found it true, by a certain instrument invented by Guilielme Guilbert (the glory of which excellent invention Ludovicus Fonseca hath lately endeavoured to ravish) ... which by the spontaneous elevation of the loadstone in a brasse ring suspended by a thread or small wier, shews not only the latitude but also the altitude of the pole, in all places of the earth.”
Page 39. “... the loadstone is endued with a domestick pilot, a directive faculty, which guides it to some determinate place, but is not at all attracted by the pole.”
Page 40. “The loadstone onely by the affriction of Garlick, amits its verticity, and neglects the pole, conserving to it self, in the meane time, its peculiar forme, materiall constitution, and all other dependent proprieties. The reason, because Garlick is the loadstone’s proper Opium, and by it that spirituall sensation in the magnet is consopited and layd asleep.... Verily, that alliciency of the pole must be extreame weake and of inconsiderable energy, which passing through so many and so immense orbes of heaven, and striking through great and firme buildings, and thick walls, cannot yet be of power sufficient to pierce the thin juice of Garlick or the fume of Mercury....”
Page 42. “There is therefore inhærent in the magnet an influentiall virtue, which, being not obliged to the propinquinty or comtiguous admotion of its object, is after the nobler names of coelestiall influences, freely and without interruption or languor transmitted so farre as to the pole it self: since there is a spontaneous eradiation, or emission of atomicall radii from the body of the magnet to the pole.”
Page 74. “That the magnetisme of the loadstone and other inanimate creatures is performed by a certaine naturall sensation, the immediate anthrix of all sympathy, is a truth unquestionable.”
Page 75. “For by one phansy it is directed to iron, and by another to the pole ... the phansy of amber delights to allect strawes, chaffe, and other festucous bodies; by an attraction, we confesse, observe obscure and weake enough, yet sufficiently manifest and strong to attest an Electricity or attractive signature....”
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