Musschenbroek, Petrus van, Physicae experimentales, et geometricae de magnete, tuborum capillarium vitreorumque speculorum attractione, magnitudine terrae, cohaerentia corporum firmorum dissertationes: ut et ephemerides meteorologicae ultraiectinae

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          <head xml:id="echoid-head166" xml:space="preserve">CAPUT QUINTUM.</head>
          <head xml:id="echoid-head167" style="it" xml:space="preserve">De vi Magnetica Ferri.</head>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s5988" xml:space="preserve">Admodum univerſalis eſt virtus Maguetica, in corpore quo-
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            cunque ex Ferro confecto latens; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5989" xml:space="preserve">five enim fuerit magnum
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            vel parvum, craſſum vel tenue ferramentum, manifeſto vim attra-
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            ctricem ſuam demonſtrat, quam exercet in Limaturam, Arenam
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            Virginienſem, aut in Acum Magneticam; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5990" xml:space="preserve">atque directrice virtute
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            ſæpegaudet, qua ad eaſdem cœliplagas, ſibi commiſium, convertitur,
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            quam Magnes aut Verſorium: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5991" xml:space="preserve">Hoc autem non admirandum eſt,
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            quia ſupra adnotavimus, Ferrum rubigine corroſum vetuſtate tem-
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            poris, atque Lapidis poris infuſum, in verum Magnetem abire & </s>
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            commutari; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5993" xml:space="preserve">neque magno indigemus molimine ad vim Magneticam
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            in corporibus ex Ferro fabrefactis inveniendam, omnis enim culter,
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            forceps, forfex, clavus, cuneus, acus, aut quodcunque aliud ad
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            manus inſtrumentum fuerit ferreum, Arenam Indicam aut ferream
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            ſcobem ad cuſpidem angulumve ſuum attrahendo affigit: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5994" xml:space="preserve">Cognita
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            hæc elapſo ſeculo fuerunt plurimis, præcipue tamen Viris ſtudio
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            & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5995" xml:space="preserve">doctrinâ præſtantiſſimis Gaſſendo, Rohaulto; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5996" xml:space="preserve">& </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5997" xml:space="preserve">hac tempeſtate
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            ulterius confirmata â Wolfio, Reaumurioque in L’Hiſtoire de L’ A-
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            cad. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5998" xml:space="preserve">Roy. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5999" xml:space="preserve">A°. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6000" xml:space="preserve">1723. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6001" xml:space="preserve">De Magnete ejuſque viribus acturus, non
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            omittendas obſervationes de vi Ferri captas cenſui, cum ejuſdem
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            ſint naturæ ac priorcs, atque ex his lux quædam affulgeat il-
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            lis: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6002" xml:space="preserve">& </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6003" xml:space="preserve">quemadmodum plurima, quæ de Magnete olim affirmaban-
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            tur, novo examini ſubmittens confirmavi, aut errorem detexi, ita
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            hic pergendum erat, exploranda erant aliorum inventa de novo,
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            hiulci ſupplendi, omiſſa & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6004" xml:space="preserve">præterviſa addenda, in ordinem redi-
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            genda, quæ ſparſim apud alios exſtabant; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6005" xml:space="preserve">hæc præmonenda duxi,
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            ne trita, aut aliorum inventa pro meis venditare videar.</s>
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