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 1 1|          stone which draws iron [the lodestone]. It mightbe thought that
 2 1|              iron is attractedby the lodestone, and chaff by amber. He
 3 1|          corpuscles belonging to the lodestone rebound,and become entangled
 4 1|          particles thatflow from the lodestone collide with the iron and
 5 1|             being in contact withthe lodestone, and the power being transmitted
 6 1|       attached. For the power of the lodestone is distributedin all directions;
 7 1|               if you imagine a small lodestone hanging in a house, and
 8 1|            the top most one - to the lodestone, and by the bottom one to
 9 1| superiorextremity must hang from the lodestone, and the iron must be attachedto
10 1|           line, the particles of the lodestone which easily traverse thefirst
11 1|              same faculty asdoes the lodestone. Thus, I myself have seen
12 1|           even than the theoryof the lodestone, mentioned a little while
13 2|             to that possessed by the lodestone for iron. Here, then, again,
14 2|             iron is attracted by the lodestone, the latter having a faculty
15 3|             one way, and iron by the lodestone in another. And we must