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The fifth po/ition is, that in the loadftone there arc emana- 6. 

 tions which do ifliie not onely at the poles and about them, but JJjJjf j^SJ 6 

 alfo fpherically, round about the whole body, and in an orbc itiemtnariont 

 from all parts of the fuperficies of it; in fuch fort as happcncth in ^""art* O r 

 all other bodies whatfoever. And that thefe fpherical emanations * w k ^ ds: ? n * 

 arc of two kinds ; proportionable to the two polar emanations, "mngeft 

 And that the greateft force of each fort of them is in that hcmi- l1 }" h 



t i i . r-rr P hcre 



fpherc where tqp pole is, at which they make their chief iflue. whofe 



The reafbnofthc firft part of this poficion is, becaufe no par- JJ" sthcy lflUe 

 ticular body can be exempt from the lawes of all bodiesrand we 

 hare above declared that every phyficall body muft of neceflity 

 have an orb of fluours,or a fphere of activity about it. The rea- 

 fon of the fccond part is, that feeing thefe fluours do proceed out 

 of the very fubftancc and nature of the loadftone, they cannot 

 choofe but be found of both lbrts,in every part how little foever 

 it be, where the nature of the loadftone refideth. The reafbn of 

 the third part is,thac becaufe the polar emanations do tend whol- 

 ly towards the poles (each of them to their proper pole} it fol- 

 loweth that in every hemifphere both thole which come from the 

 contrary hemifphere, and thofe which are bred in the hemi- 

 fphere they go out at, are all afiembled in that hemifphere : and 

 therefore of necefTity it muft be ftronger in that kind of fluours, 

 then the oppofite end is. All which appeareth true in experience: 

 for if a long iron toucheth any part of that hemifphere of a load- 

 ftone which tendeth to the north it gainech at that end a virtue 

 of tending likewife to the north : and the fame will be if an iron 

 but hang clofeorer it. And this may be confirmed by a like ex- 

 perience, of an iron barre in refpe& of the earth which hanging 

 downwards in any part of our hemifphere, is imbued with the 

 like inclination of drawing towards the north. 



Thefixth pofidon is, that although every part of one load- - 

 flone do in it f elf agree with every part of another loadftone Putting t wo 

 (that is, if each of thefe parts were divided from their wholes, l^he"^^ 

 and each of them made a whole by it felf,they might be fo joyn- oi ^nc another, 

 ed together as they would agree,) nevertheleflc, when the purts onc^ioadftone 

 arc in their two wholes;thcy do not all of them agree Together : <i c hn c agree 

 but of two loadftonesj, only the poles of the one do agree wish df'iiwotlicr" 

 the whole body of the other ; that is.each pole with any part of Io liftone * 

 the contrary hemifphere of the other loadftoac. 



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