A Table. 



CHAP. XXL 



Portions drawn out of the former 

 do&rine, and confirmed by ex- 

 pcrimentall proofs. 



I . The operations of the loadftone 



are wrought by bodies and not 



by qualities. 

 2. Objections against the former 



po fit ion anfwered. 

 j. The loadstone is imbued with 



his vertue from another body. 

 q. The vertue of the load/lone is 



a double , and not one fimple 



virtue. 

 j. The virtue of the loadflone 



worketh more flrongly in the 



Poles of it , then in any other 



part. 



6. The loadflone fendeth forth itr 

 emanations fphcrically. Which 

 are of two kjnds : and each kjnd 

 isftrongeftin that hemisphere, 

 through whofe polar j parts they 

 ijfite out. 



7. Tutting two loadflone s within 

 thtfphere of one another, every 

 part of one loadstone doth not a- 

 gree with every part of the other 

 loadstone. 



8. C oncern i n & th* declination and 

 other refpefts of a needle , to- 

 wards the loadstone it toucheth 



p. The virtue of the loadftonc go- 

 eth from end to end in lines al- 

 moft parallel! to the axis. 



10. The virtue of a loadstonf is 

 not perfettlj fphericall though 

 thcftenc be fuch. 



11. T he intention of nature in aft 

 the operations of the loadflone> 

 is to make an union betwixt t-he 

 attrftive and the at trailed bo- 

 dies. 



12. The main globe of the earth 

 not a loadftone. 



13. The loxdftone is generated in 

 all parts or climates f the earth 



14. The conformity betwixt the 

 t vfo motions ofmagnetickjhings 

 and of heavy things. 



CHAP. XXII. 



A (blution of certain Probleires 

 concerning the loadftone, and a 

 fhort fumme of the whole do- 

 ctrine touching it. 



1 . Which is the North, and which 

 the South Poleof a loadftone. 



2. Whether any bodies be fides ma- 

 gnet ick^ ones he attractive. 



3. Whether an iron placed perpen- 

 dicularly towards the earth doth 

 get a magnet ical virtue of poin- 

 ting towards the north, or to- 

 wards thefouth in that end that 

 lieth downwards. 



4. Why load/tones affect tron bet- 

 ter then one another. 



J. Gilberts rtafon refuted touch- 

 ing a capped loadftont, that ta- 

 keth up more iron then one not 

 capped; and an iron impregnated 

 that in fame cafe draweth more 

 ftrongly then the ftone itfelf. 



6. Galileus his opinion touching 

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