The Loadstone (Natural Magnet)

On the magnet, magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth: a new physiology, demonstrated by many arguments & experiments

MAGNETICK Motions


Chapter 1

The Magnetick Coition, and first on the Attraction of Amber, or the Attaching of Bodies to Amber.


Chapter 2

The Magnetick Coition, and first on the Attraction of Amber, or the Attaching of Bodies to Amber.


Chapter 2b

The Effluvia


Chapter 2c

Opinions of others on Magnetick Coition, which they call Attraction


Chapter 3

What is Magnetick Force & Form and the cause of the Coition?


Chapter 4

What is Magnetick Force & Form and the cause of the Coition?


Chapter 4b

How the Power dwells in the Loadstone


Chapter 5

How magnetick pieces of Iron and smaller loadstones conform themselves to a terrella & to the earth itself, and by them are disposed


Chapter 6-7

The geography of the Earth, and of the Terrella


Chapter 8

The geography of the Earth, and of the Terrella


Chapters 11-13

Why at the Pole itself the Coition is stronger


Chapter 14

Movements take place by the Magnetical Vigour though solid bodies lie between; and on the interposition of iron plates


Chapter 16

The Iron Cap of a Loadstone, with which it is armed at the pole (for the sake of the virtue) and on the efficacy of the same


Chapter 17

An armed Loadstone does not endow an excited piece of Iron with greater vigour than an unarmed


Chapters 18-21

Magneticks in conjunction make one magnetick


Chapter 22

Magnetick Force causes motion towards unity, and binds firmly together bodies which are united


Chapter 23

Exaltation of the power of the Magnet


Chapter 25

Why there should appear to be a greater love between iron and loadstone, than between loadstone and loadstone, or between iron and iron, when close to the loadstone, within its orbe of virtue


Chapter 26

The Centre of the Magnetick Virtues in the earth is the centre of the earth; and in a terrella is the centre of the stone


Chapter 27

Variety of Strength due to Quantity or Mass


Chapter 29

Certain Problems and Magnetick Experiments about the Coition, and Separation, and regular Motion of bodies magnetical


Chapter 32

The Varying Ratio of Strength, and of the Motion of coition, within the orbe of virtue


Chapter 33

Why a Loadstone should be stronger in its poles in a different ratio; as well in the Northern regions as in the Southern


Chapter 34