Salusbury, Thomas, Mathematical collections and translations (Tome I), 1667
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              Globe is Load-ſtone; but onely to ſhew that no reaſon could be
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              given why one ſhould be more unwilling to grant that it is of
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              Load-ſtone, than of ſome other matter. </s>
              <s>And if you will but
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              ſeriouſly conſider, you ſhall find that it is not improbable, that
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              one ſole, pure, and arbitrary name, hath moved men to think
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              that it conſiſts of Earth; and that is their having made uſe
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              monly from the beginning of this word Earth, as well to
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              ſie that matter which is plowed and ſowed, as to name this our
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              Globe. </s>
              <s>The denomination of which if it had been taken from
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              ſtone, as that it might as well have been taken from that as
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              from the Earth; the ſaying that its primary ſubſtance was ſtone,
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              would doubtleſſe have found no ſcruple or oppoſition in any
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              man. </s>
              <s>And is ſo much the more probable, in that I verily
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              lieve, that if one could but pare off the ſcurf of this great Globe,
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              taking away but one full thouſand or two thouſand yards; and
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              afterwards ſeperate the Stones from the Earth, the
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              on of the ſtones would be very much biger than that of the
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              tile Mould. </s>
              <s>But as for the reaſons which concludently prove
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              de
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              facto,
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              that is our Globe is a Magnet, I have mentioned none of
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              them, nor is this a time to alledg them, and the rather, for that
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              to your benefit you may read them in
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              Gilbert
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              ; onely to
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              rage you to the peruſal of them, I will ſet before you, in a
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              litude of my own, the method that he obſerved in his
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              phy. </s>
              <s>I know you underſtand very well how much the
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              ledg of the accidents is ſubſervient to the inveſtigation of the
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              ſubſtance and eſſence of things; therefore I deſire that you
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              would take pains to informe your ſelf well of many accidents and
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              properties that are found in the Magnet, and in no other ſtone,
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              or body; as for inſtance of attracting Iron, of conferring
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              on it by its ſole preſence the ſame virtue, of communicating
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              likewiſe to it the property of looking towards the Poles, as it
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              alſo doth it ſelf; and moreover endeavour to know by trial,
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              that it containeth in it a virtue of conferring upon the magnetick
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              needle not onely the direction under a Meridian towards the
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              Poles, with an Horizontal motion, (a property a long time ago
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              known) but a new found accident, of declining (being ballanced
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              under the Meridian before marked upon a little ſpherical
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              net) of declining I ſay to determinate marks more or leſſe,
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              cording as that needle is held nearer or farther from the Pole,
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              till that upon the Pole it ſelf it erecteth perpendicularly,
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              as in the middle parts it is parallel to the Axis. </s>
              <s>Furthermore
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              cure a proof to be made, whether the virtue of attracting Iron,
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              reſiding much more vigorouſly about the Poles, than about the
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              middle parts, this force be not notably more vigorous in one
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              Pole than in the other, and that in all pieces of Magnet; the </s>
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