Book, Aphorism

 1        1, LXX     |  experiment, as Gilbert with the magnet, and the chemists with gold;
 2        1, LXXXVIII|        such as the nature of the magnet, the ebb and flow of the
 3        1, XCIX    |      before the discovery of the magnet, anyone had said that a
 4        1, XCIX    |       gunpowder, of silk, of the magnet, of sugar, of paper, or
 5        1, XCIX    |     printing, gunpowder, and the magnet. For these three have changed
 6        1, XXV     |         striking instance is the magnet. But there is a contrary
 7        1, XXV     |        clandestine instance is a magnet armed with iron, or rather
 8        1, XXV     |      rather the iron in an armed magnet. For it is a fact in nature
 9        1, XXV     |          in nature that an armed magnet at some distance off does
10        1, XXV     |       powerfully than an unarmed magnet. But if the iron be brought
11        1, XXV     |      touch the iron in the armed magnet, then the armed magnet supports
12        1, XXV     |     armed magnet, then the armed magnet supports a far greater weight
13        1, XXV     |        than a simple and unarmed magnet, on account of the similarity
14        1, XXV     |    latent in the iron before the magnet was applied. Hence it is
15        1, XXV     |         lively and strong in the magnet, feeble and latent in iron.
16        1, XXVI    |      communication; heat and the magnet another. For the communication
17        1, XXVI    |       heat and the virtue of the magnet, after they have been transmitted
18        1, XXVIII  |        and moon among stars; the magnet among stones; quicksilver
19        1, XXXI    |    placed the sun, the moon, the magnet, and the like — things in
20        1, XXXVI   |     needle when touched with the magnet. With regard to this nature
21        1, XXXVI   |          Either the touch of the magnet of itself invests the iron
22        1, XXXVI   |         without the touch of the magnet by its long continuance
23        1, XXXVI   |          supply the touch of the magnet and excite the iron, and
24        1, XXXVI   |         without the touch of the magnet; as if the parts of the
25        1, XXXVI   |        The needle while over the magnet (for on this point there
26        1, XXXVI   |          toward the poles of the magnet; and therefore, as long
27        1, XXXVI   |        on being removed from the magnet and placed on a pivot, either
28        1, XXXVII  |       which iron is drawn to the magnet, heavy bodies to the globe
29        1, XLII    |       which the operation of the magnet in drawing iron is entirely
30        1, XLII    |          Thus it may be that the magnet would not attract iron as
31        1, XLIII   |          and reflected; that the magnet acts through bodies of all
32        1, XLIII   |        iron interposed between a magnet and another piece of iron
33        1, XLIII   |       destroys the action of the magnet. But this subject also will
34        1, XLV     |        power by which iron and a magnet, or two magnets, are made
35        1, XLVII   |          Once more, a piece of a magnet does not draw so much iron
36        1, XLVII   |        so much iron as the whole magnet. On the other hand there
37        1, XLVIII  |         is well seen in an armed magnet which excites in iron the
38        1, XLVIII  |         off by the virtue of the magnet. And as for help derived
39        1, XLVIII  |      exists conspicuously in the magnet and magnetized iron. And
40        1, XLVIII  |   speaking of the motions of the magnet, they ought to be carefully
41        1, XLVIII  |     virtues or operations in the magnet which should not be confounded
42        1, XLVIII  |      first is, the attraction of magnet to magnet, or of iron to
43        1, XLVIII  |          attraction of magnet to magnet, or of iron to magnet, or
44        1, XLVIII  |         to magnet, or of iron to magnet, or of magnetized iron to
45        1, XLVIII  |        iron from one pole of the magnet is well observed by Gilbert
46        1, XLVIII  |       begins. In like manner the magnet endues iron with a new disposition
47        1, XLVIII  |         magnetized iron when the magnet has been put away; in dough
48        1, XLVIII  |          ceases. Again, when the magnet is removed, the iron immediately
49        1, XLVIII  |           and declination of the magnet are referable to this motion.
50        1, L       | experiment, such as those of the magnet and iron, of gold and quicksilver,
51        1, LI      |          another body, as in the magnet, which excites numberless