William Gilbert of Colchester, physician of London, On the magnet : magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth ; a new physiology, demonstrated by many arguments & experiments / William Gilbert.

  • William Gilbert
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1901
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    lifting power of loadflones, 86, 89, 97. lily of the compafs, 117, 152, 165, 177. liquids, eledtrical attraction of, 55. attra&ion on furface of, 57. Livio Sanuto, 5, 153, 167. loadftone armed and unarmed, 86, 87, 88. as medicine, 32. in plafters, 33. rock, the, 5, 6, 18, 116, 152. various names of, 11. colours of, 9, 10, 27. various fources of, 8, 25, 32. London, magnetick variation at, 154, 163. longitude, magnetick finding of, 166. long magnets, advantage of, 82, 83, 99, 101. Lucania, fall of meteorick Hones in, 26. Lucas Gauricus, 7. Lucretius, 2, 3, 8, 49, 61. Lufitanus, Amatus, 2. Lynfchoten, Hugo van, *iiij. AGNES, IjAyw];, 11. Magnefia, 8. Magnetick axis of terrella, 81, 212. axis of earth, 13, 81, 212. horizon, 80. meridian, 79, 152. mountains or rocks, 5, 6, 18, 116, 152. iflands, 5, 153, 161. motions, the five, 45. Magnus, Albertus. See Albertus. Magnus, Olaus, 5, 6. Mahometes Aradtenfis, 234, 237. Mahomet’s tomb, 2. Manardus, Joannes, 35. Marbodaeus Gallus, 2, 7. Marcellus Empiricus, 2. Marco Polo (Paulus Venetus), 4. mariners’ compafs. See compafs. Mars, faffron of (Crocus Martis\ 34, 91. Marfiglio Ficino. See Ficinus. Martin Cortes, 5, 116, 152. matter and form, 52, 65. Matthaeus Silvaticus, 3. Matthiolus, Petrus, 2, 3. Mauritanus, Gilgil, 19. Mauritanus, Serapio, 2, 6. Maurolycus, Francifcus, 5, 42, 153, 180. medicinal ufe of iron, 33. of loadftone, 32. Medina, Pedro de, 166. Menelaus, 234, 237. meridian, magnetick, 79, 152, 163. Merula, Gaudentius, 7. meteorick Hones, falls of, 26, 27. mica (or mufcovy Hone), 11, 48, 52. (juKpoyY). See terrella. moifiure Hops eledtrick adtion, 53, 56. Montagnana, B., 35. Montanus, Arias, 4. Montanus, Joannes Baptifla, 2. Moors, Serapio and the, 6. mountains, magnetick, 5, 6, 18, 116,152. movement of trepidation, 117. Mufa Brafavolus, Antonius, 2. mufcovy Hone, 11, 48, 52. See alfo mica, myths of the magnet, 2,3, 5, 6, 7, 18, 32, 63, 107, 109, no, in, 116, 143, 153,228. motions, the various magnetical, 46. AMES of amber, 47. names of the loadHone, 11. names given to the magnetick poles, 15, 115, 125, 129. Nicander of Colophon, 8, 9. Nicetas, 214. Nicolas Copernicus, 212, 214, 216, 231, 237, 238, 240. Nicolaus Myrepfus, or Praepofitas, 33. non-eledtrick bodies, 51, 55. Nonius, Petrus (Pedro Nunez), 166. Norman, Robert, 5, 8, 153, 161, 162. fuppofes a point refpe&ive, 5, 153, 161, 162. his Neive Attractive, 8. difcoverer of the dip, 8. Norumbega, the city of, 154. Nova Zembla, 152, 179. FFUSIUS, Jofrancus, 46. Olaus Magnus, 5, 6. opal becomes eledtrical, 48. orbe of virtue, 76,96,191, 205 orbes of planets, 208, 215. Oribafius, 2. Orpheus, 11, 61, 209. Oviedus, Gonzalus (Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo y Valdes), 4. Polo), 4 ANTARBES, in. Paolo (Paulus zFginae), 35. Paolo, Rev. Maeflro (Fra Paolo Sarpi), 6. Paolo the Venetian (Marco Paracelfus (Bombafl von Hohenheim). afterts the ftars to attract iron, 3. his emplaftrum of loadftone, 33. his method of ftrengthening loadftones, 93. Parmenides, 208. pearls are not eledtrick, 51, 55. Pedro de Medina, 166. percuffion excites verticity, 139. Peregrinus, Peter. his book, 5. on caufe of magnetick dire&ion, 5, 116, 153. on perpetual motion engine, 107. affirms a terrella to revolve daily, 223.