On the magnet, magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth / a new physiology, demonstrated by many arguments & experiments - Unknown

Of Discords between pieces of Iron upon the same pole
of a loadstone, and how they can agree and
stand joined together.

Likewise if those lighter pieces of iron or iron wires be suspended, hanging, as A and B, from a very fine silk thread, not twisted * but braided, distant from the stone the length of a single barleycorn, then the opposing ends, A and B, being situated within the orbe of virtue above the pole, keep a little away from one another for the same reason; except when they are very near the pole of the stone C, the stone then attracting them more strongly toward one end.

[CHAP. IX].

Figures illustrating direction and showing varieties
of rotations.

Of Discords between pieces of Iron upon the same poleof a loadstone, and how they can agree andstand joined together.

[CHAP. IX].

Figures illustrating direction and showing varietiesof rotations.

Of Discords between pieces of Iron upon the same pole
of a loadstone, and how they can agree and
stand joined together.

Figures illustrating direction and showing varieties
of rotations.