Book, Aphorism

 1        1, XCIX  |            a specific character, as iron, stone; and again in parts
 2        1, XI    |           sprinkled with water.~19. Iron, when first dissolved by
 3        1, XII   |           rays or light, as that of iron or stone heated but not
 4        1, XII   |         manifestly; and most of all iron and steel, which not only
 5        1, XIII  |        caused in the dissolution of iron and tin. There is therefore
 6        1, XIII  |            in furnaces for smelting iron, in which a fire made with
 7        1, XIII  |          been known to melt wrought iron into drops, which those
 8        1, XIII  |              are ignited metals, as iron, copper, etc. But these
 9        1, XIII  |           than some flames. Ignited iron, for instance, is much hotter
10        1, XIII  |       hammer, grow red like ignited iron. But let this be tried by
11        1, XIII  |           brick, stone, or piece of iron, when plunged into a basin
12        1, XVIII |            4. On account of ignited iron and other metals, which
13        1, XVIII |             a comparison of ignited iron and the flame of spirit
14        1, XVIII |           of wine (of which ignited iron has more heat and less brightness,
15        1, XVIII |           10. On account of ignited iron, which does not swell in
16        1, XX    |          state.~It is shown also in iron or stones which, though
17        1, XX    |          upward. Take therefore two iron rods, or two glass tubes,
18        1, XX    |          expand in bulk, as ignited iron, in which the heat is very
19        1, XX    |        comparing the dissolution of iron and gold. Gold is dissolved
20        1, XX    |            while the dissolution of iron is accompanied by a violent
21        1, XX    |            yield easily; whereas in iron the entrance is rough and
22        1, XX    |      conflict, and the parts of the iron have greater obstinacy.~
23        1, XXIV  |            own body. Again, ignited iron and like bodies are so far
24        1, XXV   |            substance. Thus there is iron which does not attract iron,
25        1, XXV   |         iron which does not attract iron, just as lead does not attract
26        1, XXV   |     instance is a magnet armed with iron, or rather the iron in an
27        1, XXV   |            with iron, or rather the iron in an armed magnet. For
28        1, XXV   |       distance off does not attract iron more powerfully than an
29        1, XXV   |          unarmed magnet. But if the iron be brought so near as to
30        1, XXV   |             so near as to touch the iron in the armed magnet, then
31        1, XXV   |             a far greater weight of iron than a simple and unarmed
32        1, XXV   |     substance between the pieces of iron; an operation altogether
33        1, XXV   |       clandestine and latent in the iron before the magnet was applied.
34        1, XXV   |        magnet, feeble and latent in iron. Again, it has been observed
35        1, XXV   |            wooden arrows without an iron point, discharged from large
36        1, XXV   |             same arrows tipped with iron, on account of the similarity
37        1, XXXIV |            kind are gold in weight; iron in hardness; the whale in
38        1, XXXVI |             had a machine made with iron wires to represent it.~The
39        1, XXXVI |            by the compression of an iron spring. Let them be exactly
40        1, XXXVI | investigated be the polarity of the iron needle when touched with
41        1, XXXVI |        magnet of itself invests the iron with polarity to the north
42        1, XXXVI |            excites and prepares the iron, while the actual motion
43        1, XXXVI |           industry. One is, that an iron nail which has lain for
44        1, XXXVI |           the magnet and excite the iron, and then shape and turn
45        1, XXXVI |        excited. Another is, that if iron that has been heated white-hot
46        1, XXXVI |              as if the parts of the iron, set in motion by ignition
47        1, XXXVI |             at the top an untouched iron needle, and allow it to
48        1, XXXVI |           this subject: that a thin iron plate or stiffish iron wire,
49        1, XXXVI |         thin iron plate or stiffish iron wire, or even a reed or
50        1, XXXVII|             light; the motion of an iron needle on a pivot is quick
51        1, XXXVII|           magnetic action, by which iron is drawn to the magnet,
52        1, XL    |       bodies softened, as white hot iron; or they become fluid, as
53        1, XLII  |            of the magnet in drawing iron is entirely prevented. Gold
54        1, XLII  |            magnet would not attract iron as well through a mass of
55        1, XLIII |            a milder one; a plate of iron interposed between a magnet
56        1, XLIII |         magnet and another piece of iron destroys the action of the
57        1, XLV   |             magnetic power by which iron and a magnet, or two magnets,
58        1, XLVII |        magnet does not draw so much iron as the whole magnet. On
59        1, XLVIII|           solid substance, as wood, iron, lead, cloth, parchment,
60        1, XLVIII|             magnet which excites in iron the virtue of detaining
61        1, XLVIII|             the virtue of detaining iron by similarity of substance,
62        1, XLVIII|        substance, the torpor of the iron being cast off by the virtue
63        1, XLVIII|           the magnet and magnetized iron. And now that we are speaking
64        1, XLVIII|             magnet to magnet, or of iron to magnet, or of magnetized
65        1, XLVIII|            magnet, or of magnetized iron to iron. The second is its
66        1, XLVIII|            or of magnetized iron to iron. The second is its polarity,
67        1, XLVIII|            its virtue from stone to iron, and from iron to iron,
68        1, XLVIII|             stone to iron, and from iron to iron, without communication
69        1, XLVIII|           to iron, and from iron to iron, without communication of
70        1, XLVIII|             gold. But the flight of iron from one pole of the magnet
71        1, XLVIII|            manner the magnet endues iron with a new disposition of
72        1, XLVIII|         been removed; in magnetized iron when the magnet has been
73        1, XLVIII|          the magnet is removed, the iron immediately drops. The moon
74        1, XLVIII|       magnets that hold and suspend iron of sixty times their own
75        1, L     |            in time. For the rust of iron is slow in forming, but
76        1, L     |             those of the magnet and iron, of gold and quicksilver,