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The reafon ofthis is,becaufe the fluours which ifTue out of the 

 ftones, are'in certain different degrees in feverall parts of the 

 entire loadftones ; whereby it happeneth that one loadftone can 

 work by a determinate part of it felf moft powerfully upon the 

 other, if fome determinate part of that other do lie next unto it ; 

 and not fb well, if any other part licth towards it. And ac- 

 cordinly experience (hewcth that ifyou put the pole of a load- 

 ftone towards the middle of a needle that is toucjjpd at the point, 

 the middle part of the needle will turn away, and the end of it 

 will convert it felf to the pole of the loadftone. 



8. The feventh pofition is, that if a touched needle and a load- 



- Concerning the ft O ne do come together, and touch one another in their agreeing 



o5?fT n !>eft" parts (whatfoevcr parts of them thofe be) the line of the needles 



ofanecdjc, to ] en or.h will bend towards the pole of the ftone(excepting,if they 



wirds the load- ^Y i i C t n f -jji ri & Jt \ 



ftore it touch- touch by the equator of the (tone, and the middle of the needle:) 

 eth * yet not fo that if you draw out the line of the needles length, ic 



will go through the pole ofthe ftone ; unlcfle they touch by the 

 end ofthe one,and the pole of the other. But if they touch by the 

 equator ofthe one and the middle ofthe other, then the needle 

 will lie paralleleto the axis of the, ftone. 



And the reafon of this is manifeft, for in that cafe the two 

 poles being equidiftant to the needle they draw it equally ; and 

 by confequence the needle muft remain parallele to the axis of 

 the ftone. Nor doth it import that the inequality ofthe two 

 poles oftheftoneis materially or quantitatively greater then the 

 inequality ofthe two poles ofthe needle j out of which it may 

 at the firft fight fcem to follow, that the ftronger pole ofthe 

 ftone fhould draw the weaker pole ofthe needle nearer unto ic 

 felfjthcn the weaker pole ofthe ftone can be able to draw the 

 ftronger pole ofthe needle : and by con/equence that the needle 

 fliould not lie parallele to the axis of the ftone, but fhould in- 

 cline fomewhat to the ftronger pole ofit.For after you have we! 

 confidered the matter>you will find that the ftrength of the pole 

 ofthe ftone, cannot work according to its materiall greatneflc, 

 but is confined to work onely according to the fufceptibility of 

 the needle:the which, being a (lender and thin body, cannot re- 

 ceive fo much as a thicker body may. Wherefore, feeing that the 

 ftrongeft pole ofthe ftone gi /eth moft ftrength to that pole of 

 the needle, which lieth fartheft from it ; it may Well happen 



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