William Gilbert of Colchester Physician of London On the Load Stone And Magnet
William Gilbert of Colchester Physician of London On the Load Stone And Magnet
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E. , ferruginous stone, or stony iron. " The stone, " he says, 1 " is not changed into iron so as to lose its own nature, nor is the iron so merged in the stone but that it retains its own essence ; and while each strives to overcome each, from the struggle results attraction of the iron. In the mass (of the loadstone) there is more stone than iron ; therefore the iron, lest it should be dependent on (subdued by) the stone, craves the strength and company of iron, to the end that what it cannot... procure of itself it may obtain by the help of the other. . . . The loadstone does not attract stones because it > "Natural Magick, " 1658, Book VII, Chap. II. CONCERNING MAGNETIC COITION. IO3 has no need of them, there being stone enough in its mass ; and if one loadstone attracts another that is not for the sake of the stone, but of the iron shut up in the stone. " As though the iron in a loadstone were a distinct body and not one blended with another, like all other metals in their ores. And it is height of absurdity to speak of these substances, thus confounded together, as warring with each other and quarrel- ing, and calling out from the battle for forces to come to their aid.
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E. , ferruginous stone, or stony iron. " The stone, " he says, 1 " is not changed into iron so as to lose its own nature, nor is the iron so merged in the stone but that it retains its own essence ; and while each strives to overcome each, from the struggle results attraction of the iron. In the mass (of the loadstone) there is more stone than iron ; therefore the iron, lest it should be dependent on (subdued by) the stone, craves the strength and company of iron, to the end that what it cannot... procure of itself it may obtain by the help of the other. . . . The loadstone does not attract stones because it > "Natural Magick, " 1658, Book VII, Chap. II. CONCERNING MAGNETIC COITION. IO3 has no need of them, there being stone enough in its mass ; and if one loadstone attracts another that is not for the sake of the stone, but of the iron shut up in the stone. " As though the iron in a loadstone were a distinct body and not one blended with another, like all other metals in their ores. And it is height of absurdity to speak of these substances, thus confounded together, as warring with each other and quarrel- ing, and calling out from the battle for forces to come to their aid.
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