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VIII. An Account of fome Magnetical Experi- 
ments, (hewed before the Royal Society, by 
Mr. Gowan Knight, on Thurfday the i$th 
of November, 1 744. 
Read Nqv. 15. 
■1744. 
R. Knight , of Magdalen-College in 
Oxford, being introduced to a 
Meeting of the Royal Society on Thurfday the 15th 
of November , 1744, produced, before the Gentle- 
men there prefent, fcveral curious artificial Magnets 
contrived by himfelf; fome of which confided of 
plain Bars of Steel naked, and other of Bars or Blocks 
of the fame Subftance, armed with Iron after the com- 
mon manner of natural Loaddones : But, as he was 
apprehendve the Trials he had before made of the 
Weights thefe Magnets were refpedlively capable of 
lifting, could hardly be repeated with fufficient Ex- 
a&ncfs and Advantage before fo large a Company, 
he dedred to refer himfelf, for thofe Particulars, to 
what the Trefident of the Society had fecn at his 
Lodgings on IVednefday the 7th, and on Tuefday 
the 13 th, of the fame Month of November. 
Whereupon the Prefidcnt acquainted the Company, 
that he had lately been fcveral times at Mr. Knight's 
Lodgings, where he had feen many Experiments 
made with his artificial Magnets ; and that, particu- 
larly on the Days above-mentioned, he had been 
prefent, and had taken Minutes of the following 
Trials then made by that Gentleman ; by which it 
•appeared, that, 
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