SECT. II.
ARTIC.
- 1 THe Method, and Contents of the Sect.
- ibid.
- 2 Affinity of the Loadstone and Iron.
- ibid.
- 3 The Loadstone conforms it self, in all respects, to the Terrestrial Globe; as a Needle con∣forms it self to the Loadstone.
- 399
- 4 Iron obtains a Verticity, not onely from the Loadstone, by affriction▪ or Aspiration; but al∣so from the Earth it self: and that according to the laws of Position.
- 400
- 5 One and the same Nature, in common to the Earth, Loadstone and Iron.
- 401
- 6 The Earth, impragnating Iron with a Polary Affection, doth cause therein a Local Immuta∣tion of its insensible particles.
- 402
- 7 The Loadstone doth the same.
- 403
- 8 The Magnetique Virtue, a Corporeal Efflux.
- ib.
- 9 Contrary Objections, and their Solution••▪
- 404
- 10 A Parallelism of the Magnetique Virtue, and the Vegetative Faculty of Plants
- 405
- 11 Why Poles of the same respect and name, are Enemies: and those of a Contrary respect and name, Friends.
- 406
- 12 When a Magnet is dissected into two pieces, why the Boreal part of the one half, declin••s Conjunction with the B••rea•• part of the other; and the Austral of one with the Austral of the other.
- ibid.
- 13 The Fibres of the Earth extend from Pole to Pole; and that may be the Cause of the firm Cohaesion of all its Parts, conspiring to con∣serve its Spherical Figure.
- 407
- 14 Reason of Magnetical Variation, in divers climates and places.
- ibid.
- 15 The Decrement of Magnetical Variation, in one and the same place, in divers years.
- 410
- 16 The Cause thereof not yet known.
- ibid.
- 17 No Magnet hath more than Two Legitimate Poles: and the reasons of Illegitimate ones
- 411
- 18 The Conclusion, Apologetical; and an Ad∣vertisement, that the Attractive and Directive Actions of Magnetiques, arise from one and the same Faculty; and that they were distin∣guished onely 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, for conveni∣ence of Doctrine.
- 412