Chap. 2 o. ^ TrtAtifi ^/"BODIES. 



from their whole bodies, chat will readily mingle and incorpo- 

 rate with one anocher>wichout turning out oftheir way or feck- 

 ing any fhorter courfc or changirfg their refpe&s to one another 



But if the poles of the fame denomination do look the fame 

 way, and the loadftoncs do not lie in fuch fort as to hays their 

 axes parallel, but that they enclitic to one another: then they 

 "Will work themfelves about, untill they grow by their oppofite 

 poles into a ftraight line; for the fame reafon as we have fliew- 

 cd of a loadftones turning to the pole of the earth. 



But if onely one 1 of the loadftones be free & the other be fixed, 

 & that they lie inclined,as in the former cafe; then,the free ftone 

 will work himfelf untill his pole be oppofitQjo that part of the 

 fixed /tone from whence the ftream w ch agrees with him, iflueth 

 ftrongeft.-for that Itream is to the free loadftonejas the northern 

 ftrcam ofthe earth, is to a loadftone compared unto the earth.But 

 withalKwe muft take notice that in this our difcour{e,we abftra<ffc 

 from other accidents;&particularly,fro the influence ofthe earths 

 (trcams into the loadftones: w eh will caule great variety in thefe 

 cafes, if they lie not due north & fouth,when they begin to work. 



And as loadftones and other magnetick bodies,do thus of ne- 

 ceflity turn to one another when they are both free; and if one 

 of them be faftened,the other turneth to it; folikewife,ifthey be 

 free to progreflive motion, they muft by a like neceflity and for 

 the fame realbn, come together and joyn themfelves to one ano- 

 ther. And if onely one of them be free, that muft remove it felf 

 to the other: for the fame vjrtue that maketh them turn, (which 

 is, the ftrength ofthe fteam ) will likewife ( in due circumftan- 

 ccs) make them come together; by reafbn that the fteams which 

 climbe up one another by the way of filtration, and do thereby 

 turn the bodies ofthe ftoncs upon their centers when they are 

 onely &ee to turn, muft likewife draw the whole bodies of the 

 fiones entirely out oftheir placesj& make them joyn,when fuch 

 a totall motion ofthe body is an effe& that rcquireth no more 

 force, then the force of conveying vigoroufly the ftreams of both 

 the Magnetick bodies into one another; that is, when there is no 

 fucb impediment ftanding in the way of the Magnetick bodies 

 motion, but that the celerity of the at.omes motion, mingling 

 with oneanother.is able to overcome it:for then,it muft needs do 

 fo; & the magnetick body by naturall coherence unto the (team 



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