A CATALOGUE OF BODIES, 



ATTRACTIVE AND NOT ATTRACTIVE, MADE BY THE 

 LORD BACON, TOGETHER WITH EXPERIMENTAL OB 

 SERVATIONS ABOUT ATTRACTION. 



THESE FOLLOWING BODIES, DRAW. 



Amber, jeat, diamond, saphire, carbuncle, iris, 

 the gem opale, amethyst, bristollina, crystal, clear 

 glass, glass of antimony, divers flowers from mines, 

 sulphur, mastick, hard sealing wax, the harder rosin, 

 arsenic. 



THESE FOLLOWING BODIES, DO NOT DRAW. 



Smaragd, achates, corneolus, pearl, jaspis, chal- 

 cedononius, alablaster, porphyrie, coral, marble, 

 touch-stone, hematites or blood-stone, sinyris, ivory, 

 bones, eben-tree, cedar, cypress, pitch, softer rosin, 

 camphire, galbanum, ammoniac, storax, benjoin, 

 loadstone,* asphaltum. 



These bodies gold, silver, brass, iron, draw not, 

 though never so finely polished. 



In winter, if the air be sharp and clear, sal gem- 

 meum, rock alum, and lapis specularis, will draw. 



THESE FOLLOWING BODIES ARE APT TO BE DRAWN, IF 

 THE MASS OF THEM BE SMALL. 



Chaff, woods, leaves, stones, all metals hewed, 

 and in the mine ; earth, water, oil. 



Si fiat versorium ex metallo aliquo, more indicis 



* The drawing of iron excepted. 



