Salusbury, Thomas
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Mathematical collections and translations (Tome I)
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1667
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ſide, or that ſide of the Equinoctiall of the Earth.</
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Gilbertus
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; and having met with a moſt excellent piece of
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Magnet, I, for a long time, made many Obſervations, and all
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worthy of extream wonder; but above all, that ſeemeth to me
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very ſtupendious of increaſing the faculty of taking up Iron ſo
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much by arming it, like as the ſaid Authour teacheth; and with
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arming that piece of mine, I multiplied its force in octuple
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tion; and whereas unarmed it ſcarce took up nine ounces of
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Iron, it being armed did take up above ſix pounds: And, it
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may be, you have ſeen this Loadſtone in the ^{*} Gallery of your
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Moſt Serene Grand Duke
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(to whom I preſented it) upholding
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two little Anchors of Iron.</
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|The Magnet
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armed takes up
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much more Iron,
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than when
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med.
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+ Or Cloſet of
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rarities.</
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that a little piece of the like ſtone gave me greater cauſe of
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der, that is in the keeping of our Academick, which being no
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more than of ſix ounces weight, and ſuſtaining, when unarmed,
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hardly two ounces, doth, when armed, take up 160. ounces, ſo
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as that it is of 80. times more force armed than unarmed, and
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takes up a weight 26. times greater than its own; a much greater
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wonder than
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Gilbert
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could ever meet with, who writeth, that he
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could never get any Loadſtone that could reach to take up four
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times its own weight.</
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large Field to Phyloſophate in; and I have many times thought
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with my ſelf, how it can be that it conferreth on that Iron, which
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armeth it, a ſtrength ſo ſuperiour to its own; and finally, I finde
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nothing that giveth me ſatisfaction herein; nor do I find any
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thing extraordinary in that which
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Gilbert
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writes about this
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cular; I know not whether the ſame may have befallen
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for that a conceit ſo ſtupendious ſhould come into his minde,
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touching a thing handled by infinite ſublime wits, and hit upon
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by none of them: I think him moreover worthy of
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nary applauſe for the many new and true Obſervations that he
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made, to the diſgrace of ſo many fabulous Authours, that write
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not only what they do not know, but what ever they hear
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ken by the fooliſh vulgar, never ſeeking to aſſure themſelves of
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the ſame by experience, perhaps, becauſe they are unwilling to
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ſired in
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Gilbert,
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is, that he had been a little greater
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an, and particularly well grounded in
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Geometry,
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the practice
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whereof would have rendered him leſs reſolute in accepting thoſe
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reaſons for true Demonſtrations, which he produceth for true </
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