Created and so we read of Gold Bdellium and Onyx but this general System mentioneth only such grand Mista as Elements and Planets which in the Whole are Ingenerable and Incorruptible and therefore are particularly mentioned as they were so specialy Created IX The Earth being such as I have described doth plainly declate itself to be Immovable that is not apt to Move itself if possible to be Moved by any others Yet there are some who not by any Natural Power nor by Faith but Fansy can remove not only Mountains but the whole Earth not by heaping and raising it up to Heaven as the Poets report of the Giants but as if they had obtained the Victory for it can place it among those Idol Gods Saturn Iupiter Mars and others which I shall now disprove having already shewed how the Earth is one whole Element in itself Naturaly and only Localy United with Water in the surface therof and so made one Terraqueous Globe in this Third Day but not with the Aery Expansum which was made in the Second Day and how in the First Day the Aether was made to Move about the Earth with the Light therin Diurnaly which made Day and Night and that the Earth was not made to Move about it but remained in its Chaos untill this Third Day Wherunto I shall add one Text more as a Comment upon the other being part of that Divine Hymn of Creation Who laid the Foundations of the Earth or founded the Earth upon its Basis that it cannot be Moved And so where it is said The World also is stablished that it cannot be Moved it is to be understood of this Orbis Terrae particularly as I have shewed or if any may conceiv otherwise then it shews that the Circumferential Superaether as well as the Centrical Earth is Immovable like the Roof and Foundation of an Hous which are both Immovable though other Bodys Move and are Moved therin between them and though the Roof also may be supposed to be Mobile as some very great Amphitheaters have been turned about yet the Foundation must be Immobile otherwise it should not be such a Foundation and so it is expressly said that the Earth is so founded upon her Bases that it may not be Moved Now as the Earth hath no Heat Planetary Virtâ—e or the like Active and Motive Qualitys which might Move it as Aether so it hath such as serv to found and fix it which are therefore called the Bases therof and Pillars of the Earth whence it is also by others rightly termed Bruta tellus Thus as I have shewed it is the most Dens of all Bodys and consequently most Grave and therefore possesseth the Center of the World to which it is united as to another thing by its own Gravity wherefore as the Universal Center is Immobile otherwise it should not be such a Center so the Gravity of the Earth doth Indissolubly unite it thereunto unless there can be assigned any other Body in Nature more Grave then it which might extrude it Again as by its own Gravity it is thus united to the Center so by its own Consistence it doth unite all its Parts together whereby they will not nor cannot Move in the Whole as Motes in Water and though it should be supposed to have more Consistent Parts one way then another yet becaus they are all Consistent they do not flow every way to fill the Sphere but all weigh Perpendicularly downward upon the same Center without any Fluctuation Trepidation or Inclination any other way And to keep it from being Moved in the Whole about the Center any way it hath Magnetical Virtue to fix it in one determinate Polar Position North and South so that it can neither be Moved out of its Place nor in its Place but is wholy Immobile And becaus this Magnetical Virtue of the Earth is the only colorable Caus offered to prove it Motive and so the Planets are also said to be Magnets and both confounded together which are most different in Nature I shall now more largely disprove that Assertion and thereby plainly prove the Earth not to Move I have granted the Earth to be Magnetical and I do also grant the Aether to be Planetary and shall observ a wonderfull Analogy between them that is that the Poles of the Earth do so Correspond with the Poles of the Aether that if the Magnetical Axis of the Earth were produced it would Intersect the Poles of the Aeâ—her so as it should seem to Move round upon and about them for so the Poles of the Earth are North and South and the Motion of the Aether East and West but though both Earth and Aether have their Axis Poles Aequator and Meridian and the rest not only Mathematicaly but Physicaly as I shall shew heerafter yet they are not Univocal as some suppose becaus they have the same Names but Equivocal in Nature and Physicaly different for the Earth hath them all for Fixation and Rest and the Aether to direct the Motion therof as I shall now shew I suppose we all agree that the Verticity of a Magnet is a Motion from Pole to Pole that is from North to South or from South to North Meridionaly according to the Magnetike Axis therof and not from East to West or from West to East about the Axis and according to the Aequator therof and also that if the Earth did Move Diurnaly it must Move from East to West or West to East becaus it is so Illuminated Now I say that no Magnet doth or can so Move but only from North to South or from South to North as may be tried by any Magnet or Terrella which hath Verticity Wherefore they greatly err who affirm any such Motion of the Earth or of any Magnet about its Axis for indeed if it should so Move about its Axis according to the Aequator it could not also Move from Pole to Pole according to the Meridian as I shall also shew heerafter Nor did the Antients so express the Earth to Move about its Axis but Circa Medium or about its Center which yet as I have shewed it cannot do Diurnaly becaus that Motion is according to the Aequator Again Verticity which is the only Motion of one and the same Magnet by itself is not Circular but only from Pole to Pole Semicircularly and Concursion of one Magnet to another is not Circular but Directly Progressive and therefore it may not be Imagined that the Earth or Planets do so Magneticaly Move one about another as I shall shew heerafter And though the Verticity of the Earth be Potentialy in it yet it never is nor shall be Actual for unless it could be Moved from its Polar Position there is no need nor use therof and such Potentialitys though they be never reduced into Act are not vain becaus they are Hypothetical and first suppose a violence which Nature abhorreth and so Superaether as it is Matter hath Motion as well as
Solstices and all other intermediate Illuminations throughout the Year in all the Earth but this particular Phaenomenon can not be solved thereby for since we know that India is first Illuminated and Guiana next Annualy by the Sun passing from Spain to Aethiopia and so to India and Guiana India cannot be first Illuminated and Aethiopia next becaus such different and opposite ways of Illumination cannot be without different and opposite Motions of the Illuminator that is of the Sun about the Earth and such different and opposite Motions cannot be at the same time in the same Boâ—y of the Sun and in the same Relative respect to the Body of the Earth And so it may be though we suppose the Earth to Move Annualy about the Sun one way or other Thus wheras it is said that whether the Sun Move about the Earth or the Earth about the Sun one way or other the Phaenomena will be the same it is true generaly of such as are Relatively the same one way or other as it is so in all such Relations but not of such particular Phaenomena in themselvs Positively which must be only such as they are and cannot be otherwise But this I only premise and do not insist upon either of these two Motions Diurnal or Annual becaus as we do affirm two Active Motions in the Sun that is one about his own Axis and the other in his Zodiak or Circle which he describes and which is his Annual Motion and though indeed the other be not his own Diurnal Motion Actively but the Motion of the Aether yet we cannot deny that it may be supposed that there are two such Motions in the Earth which therin may be Annual and Diurnal Actively and both these Motions must be supposed becaus though the Sun cannot Illuminate the Globe of the Earth standing still and only by turning about his own Axis but must be Moved about by the Aether Diurnaly nor otherwise then by describing a Circle about it Annualy yet the Globe of the Earth may be Illuminated by the Motion of the Earth itself about its own Center toward the Sun standing still but the great Criterion as I conceiv is that wheras only two Motions are ascribed to the Sun and a third to the Aether which is another Body Moving also the Sun in and with itself whether the Earth alone can have all these three Motions in itself as it must have to solv the Phaenomenon of the very Motion therof And now I shall first prove this third Motion to be Necessary and afterward to be both Absurd and Impossible lest having shewed the Absurdity and Impossibility any may afterward deny or doubt the Necessity therof And heer again I shall make himself that denieth or doubteth it to be the Diagramm and let him place a Terrestrial Globe how he pleaseth on one of his hands supposing it to turn round also of itself about according to its own Aequator like the supposed Diurnal Motion therof with either Pole toward his Body as if the Earth were in Cancer or Capricorn and suppose his Body to be the Sun and so let him turn his hand with the Globe on it from the Right part of his Body toward the Left or from East to West like the supposed Annual Motion of the Earth in the Zodiak therof without any third Motion to Incline the Poles one way or other and then the same Pole therof which was Inward or next to the Body or Sâ—n will still be so and it will not be varied by either of the other two Motions and so only that Hemisphere whether Arctike or Antarctike should be Illuminated both Diurnaly and Annualy and not the other at any time which is manifestly fals wherefore to solv this there must Necessarily be a third Motion supposed to Incline it which I shall therefore call Inclinatory and which he may also add to the other two by turning the Pole that is toward his Body with his other hand while he turneth the Globe as before from Right to Left or from East to West equaly the other way that is from Left to Right or from West to East according to the Meridian of the Globe which though the same way from West to East is another Motion Annualy and not Diurnaly nor according to the Aequator therof like the supposed Diurnal Motion and opposite to the Annual Motion and by this third Inclinatory Motion the other Pole will also be turned toward the Body or Sun and consequently the other Hemisphere also Illuminated but without such Inclination the Phaenomena cannot be solved And now I shall shew the Absurdity of such a supposed third Motion of the Earth if it were Possible in Nature We all agree that the Earth is Magnetical or that like every Magnet or Terrella it hath two Poles or Polar Points exactly North and South without any the least Inclination or Variation in themselvs either toward East or West and nothing els can make the Earth which is the great Magnet so to Incline or vary from the Polarity therof which is according to its own Natural Position though less Magnets may be Inclined or varied by greater or by being fixed in a contrary Position Now as these two Polar Points must be Correspondent to two such Points in the Body of the Superaether if that be Immovable as we suppose or in the Vbi therof in the Position of the Whole though the Parts may Move round therin so also to two like Points in the Aether which if the Axis of the Earth were produced beyond the Poles therof through the Aether to the utmost Circumference of the Globe of the World it must Intersect and so Terminate in two such Points in the utmost Superficies of the Superaether though these two Points or Poles of the Superaether may be only Mathematical and however some deny that there are two such Physical Points or Poles of Aether to direct the Motion therof as I have shewed yet generaly it is conceived that there is some Physical Correspondence between them and the Poles of the Earth and therefore some assigne the Influence therof or of some Northstarr about the North Pole to be the Caus of the Polarity of the Earth and others ascribe it to some Northern and Southern Atoms flowing and reflowing thence forward and backward I know not how and every Astronomer tells us that there are such Poles Axis and Aequator of the Aether All which Opinions whether true or fals presuppose such Poles or Points in the Aether and that they some way or other Correspond with the Poles of the Earth which this Hypothesis of the Inclinatory Motion of the Earth doth deny and suppose only a Northern and Southern Hemisphere of the Aether to which the respective Poles in the Earth may point and Correspond in every Part and Point therof according to such an Inclinatory Motion whereby if an Axis were produced beyond the Poles of the Earth to the Aethereal
Hemispheres each Pole so produced would vary through all the sixteen Points or more of each Hemisphere as a Directory Needle doth when it is Moved violently from North to South vary each of the Poles therof through the sixteen Points or more of each side of the Compass but as the Terrella or Needle doth not Naturaly so vary in the least maner from the North and South Points wherin only it resteth so it is most Absurd to affirm that the whole Magnetical Earth doth so vary or hath any other Position then exactly North and South for as I have before shewed though the Body of a Magnet may indeed be so varied and that part which was Northern become Southern by the Magnetical Virtue removing in it yet the Magnetical Virtue itself is alway and only Polar that is exactly North and South and cannot be otherwise for then it should ceas to be Magnetical which must also be Polar Naturaly and the Magnetical Virtue of the great Magnet the Earth is Inalterable by any greater Power in Nature which might remove it as appears by the Inclinatory Needle which alway conformably Inclines to the same two Points of the Body of the Earth which are also the two Poles of the Magnetical Virtue therof But now I shall prove this Inclinatory Motion of the Earth to be Inconsistent with the Diurnal Motion therof and therefore Impossible for it is about its own Center according to the Meridian of its own Body as the other is also about its own Center according to the Aequator of its own Body which two Motions of the same Body at the same time are Inconsistent and consequently Impossible I have already shewed how a Body at the same time may Move about its own Axis according to the Parts and also Progressively according to the Whole as a Cart-wheel Moveth runing down a hill or any Planet Moving about its own Axis and also Progressively in the Circle that it describes and so also the Motion therof about its Axis may be one way as from East to West and the Progressive Motion the other way as from West to East as suppose an undershot Wheel runing down a declive Chanel of Water which shall also carry it about its own Axis one way while it runs down the other way and so the handle of a Qâ—ern may be Moved Progressively one way and yet Directed or Inclined about its own Axis the other way or a Turbo or Top sett up by the Right hand drawing back the Scutica or Slash wound about it is turned about its own Axis back again from the Left hand to the Right hand and yet it may be also whip'd Progressively from the Right hand to the Left hand And the Satellites about a principal Planet do describe Hemitrochoids as I may so term them whereby it most evidently appears that they are not nor can they possibly be so Moved by the Spheres for it is not only by a Circular but a Progressive Motion so as if while by the Axis a Quernstone were drawn forward Circularly by the Handle it should be also Moved round about the Axis the Handle would describe such an Hemitrochoid about the Axis Also I grant that three or more several Motions may be in the same Body at the same time by several Movers as suppose a Ship sailing round and describing a Circle Zodiacaly like the Annual Motion of the Earth and a Globe Moving in the Ship about its own Axis according to the Aequator therof like the Diurnal Motion of the Earth and a Fly Moving upon the Globe according to the Meridian therof like the Inclinatory Motion therof the Fly doth not only so Move upon the Globe but is also Moved by the Globe according to the Motion therof and the Globe and consequently the Fly by the Ship according to the Motion therof and so there may be in the same Body at the same time as many several Motions as you pleas for the Body doth not Move itself Actively according to all these Motions but is also Moved Passively by others which is as great a difference as there is between Action and Passion as I have shewed Now though I grant that there may be an Active Motion of the Body itself according to the Parts about its own Axis and according to the Whole Progressively either in a Direct or Circular Progression yet I deny that the same Body at the same time can Actively Move itself any more then these two several ways as that while it Moves about its Center one way it can also Move about its Center any other way or that while it Moves Progressively according to any Line Direct or Circular one way it can Move Progressively according to any other Line another way which plainly is as Impossible as that the same Body at the same time should be in several Places for so indeed it must be either according to the Parts if it could so Move about its Center for then the same Part must be in or upon several Points at the same time or according to the Whole if it could so Move Progressively for then the Whole must be in or upon several Lines at the same time and it may be tried by a round Bullet of Iron or Lead marked with the two Poles and an Aequator and Meridian and then place it on a declive Bord on either of the Poles and it will run round according to the Meridian from Pole to Pole by the Gravity therof but if by the Prepotence of your hand you sett it up like a Top according to the Aequator with one Pole on the Bord as before yet it will not run round as before according to the Meridian from Pole to Pole but slide down turning round according to the Aequator only upon that one Pole becaus it cannot Move both ways at the same time though it doth Move about its Axis according to the Aequator by the Impressed Motion and Progressively downward by the Gravity at the same time but as it cannot then Possibly Move Progressively any other way then downward or in or upon any other Line at the same time then as it doth then Move so neither can it Move about its Axis any other then one and the same way that it doth Move at the same time And so as I have shewed though there may be supposed a Diurnal Motion of the Earth about its own Center according to the Aequator and an Annual Motion Progressively in the Zodiak or Circle that it describes yet there cannot also be a third Inclinatory Motion about the Center according to the Meridian becaus there cannot be two Motions about several Axes therof according to the Meridian and Aequator or about the Center of itself as I said especialy since the Diurnal Motion of the Earth must be about the Axis according to the Aequator and the Inclinatory about the Center according to the Meridian not only thus severaly but one Diurnaly and
both of Vegetatives and Animals have no Use nor Inspection therof it must conformably have its own proper Inhabitants to use and enjoy it otherwise it should be so made in vain Again the Moon cannot be any such Magnet as the Earth which appears plainly by her Motions so often about the Earth without Moving once about her own Axis for such are not Magnetical nor in any respect like unto â—he Motion of any Terrella about the Earth or Needle about a Terrella which maketh two Revolutions about its own Axis while it Moveth once round about the other like one Wheel with Teeth so Moving about another whereby also the South Pole therof doth alway comply with the Noth Pole of the other and the North Pole with the South Pole of the other and so all the other Intermediate Points and if we say that the Moon hath any other Magnetical Virtue different from that of the Earth which doth so regulate her own Motions I grant that both the Moon and all the others have such proper Specifical Virtues as I have shewed and which I Genericaly call Planetary and though others may more Genericaly call them all Magnetical yet I must affirm them Subalternately to differ as I have said and shewed that the Poles Axis and Aequator of Aether do from them in the Earth though they be both so Denominated Equivocaly Also it is Sensibly evident that the Moon is not an Earth nor the Earth a Moon becaus the Moon is Luminous but the Earth Opacous though very much Illustrated by the Sun which becaus it is denied and will also concern all the other Starrs therefore I more willingly undertake to prove it though it be only a Superfoetation of the former Error It is expressly said that God made two great Lights that is the Sun and the Moon wherefore the Moon is a Light or Luminary as well as the Sun and greater or less Light doth not deny but affirm the less to be a Light as well as the greater and so they are both termed Synonymously and Univocaly Luminaria and not the Sun Luminare and the Moon Speculare as some men would make her to be and so it is said generaly of them and of all the other Planets and Starrs Let there be Lights in the Firmament of Heaven and so indeed is the whole Aether both Calid and Luminous though yet less then the Moon or Starrs becaus Heat and Light are the common Aethereal Qualitys though there may be farr more in one Aethereal Body then another becaus their Composita are Specificaly different but as they are all more Genericaly Aethereal so they must all have their Generical Qualitys without which they should not be Genericaly what they are as well as all Vegetatives and Sensitives though they differ Specificaly one from another in their Sâ—mple Substances and so have their Specificaly different Spirits and Spiritual Qualitys yet must also have such as are Genericaly Vegetative and Sensitive otherwise they should not be what they are Vegetatives or Sensitives and thus indeed they make the Moon to be a Terrella and not Aethereal which they may as well affirm of the Sun and all the Aetheruli and Aether itself and so make it to be no Aether And wheras we Sensibly see the Moon to shine the Question is whether she shâ—ne by her own Light or only by the Solar Rays Reflected from the Earth whereby the Earth should give Light upon her which I have before refuted nor can it be so according to Optike Law if we consyder the very great distance between the Earth and Moon for though Direct Rays pass from the Center Circumferentialy to the utmost Sphere of their Activity as the Solar Rays so Illuminate the Earth and the whole opposite Hemisphere yet Reflex Rays are much shorter though very Vivid and quick becaus they are so Reduplicated and Conspissated like the Horns of a Snail when they are touched and they are proportionably stronger as they are neerer to the Reflecting Angle or Point as we see a Candle much farther by the Direct Rays then any Object Illuminated thereby by the Reflex Rays therof and the neerer we are to the Object we see it better And so though it is said that the Pike of Teneriff may be seen at the distance of two or three Degrees as any Eminences of the Earth may be seen so farr as a Line drawn from the Summit therof will be Tangent upon the Globe of the Earth and perhaps somwhat farther by the advantage of Refraction which may suffice to render an Object Visible about such a distance as three Degrees yet at the first Degree it will be seen very Dull and Obtuse and much more at the Second and he that can see it at the third Aut videt aut vidisse putat though he look upon it at Sunrising or setting when the Rays are most Directly Reflected or with a Telescope which doth Magnify rather then Prolong the Reflected Rays or though the Object be of the greatest Magnitude as the Alps or Apennine or Rock of Lisbon and the like which yet will never be seen very Lucid or Colorate but Confused like a Cloud or Fume yea though it be Specular at so great a distance wheras plainly we see the Moon walking in Brightnes as it is said of her with our naked Ey yea her very Fâ—gure and Spotts Nor is it only by Reflection of the Solar Rays from the Moon herself though that be neerer to the Truth being only by a single Reflection wheras the other must be double first from the Earth to the Moon and then from the Moon back again to us on the Earth wherefore to find out the Mystery of so clear a Phaenomenon we must consyder the Moon in her own Native Light which is so great in herself that thereby she is also Visible unto us in an Eclips in her whole Disk and that part of her Disk which is not Illustrated by the Sun is Visible sometimes or with some advantages and wheras this Visibility is imputed to the Secondary Light of the Sun I have shewed that an Object cannot be so farr seen by his Principal Light Reflected and much less by any Secondary Light Wherefore certeinly she hath some Light in herself and such as is farr greater then the common Light of Aether becaus she may be so seen thereby in the Aether and yet this Light is farr less Lucid or Visible then when and where she is Illustrated by the Principal Solar Light which to explain we must consyder that she also is Aethereal and Connatural with the Sun and so was made one of those Luminarys which were Created in the Firmament of Heaven and sett there to give Light upon the Earth not only generaly as all the rest of the vulgar Starrs but more speciaâ—y and principaly as she is so called the Queen of Heaven and so we must conceiv that they all had not only their own Native Light produced in
heated and laid to cool North and South which is not by any communication of the Magnetical Virtue of the Earth for no Accident can so Migrate out of its own Substance wherin it doth Subsist into another but according to the Doctrine of Potentiality which I have formerly delivered by Univocal Generation or Production of the Magnetical Virtue Potentialy being and Subsisting in those less and weaker Magnets into their Actuality Also if the Virtue of them or the Magnet Stone be Actual and they laid in a Position not Polar as suppose East and West yet if they ly so long the Magnetike Virtue of the Earth will Predominate and vary that Polarity to its own North and South which is very observable and as it sheweth that the Earth is the great Magnet which in time can so over-rule all these less Magnets so also that these less Magnets or Terrellae are such Individualy in themselvs becaus while they are laid in that Position East and West which is not Polar yet they retein their own Individual Polarity in such a Position as is opposite to the Polarity of the Earth and though the Earth will at last over-rule them or if they were freely suspended in the Air they would Naturaly conform themselvs to the Poles of the Earth yet while they are so Violently laid in an opposite Position they still retein their own Individual Center Axis Poles and Aequator apparently distinct and opposite to those of the Earth and in that Position will turn another less Magnet freely suspended within the Orb therof from the Polâ—â— of the Earth to their own Poles Now thaâ— the Earth itself doth never vary its own Polarity we may sensibly perceiv by these Terrellae and their Natural Polarity and Verticity as by the Directory but especialy by the Inclinatory Needle which being carried about the Earth always Inclines the Southern Pole therof more toward the Northern as it is neerer to it and the Northern Pole therof toward the Southern Pole of the Earth as it is neerer to it and so accordingly changes its Poles and Perpendicularity whence I suppose it is also called the Dipping Needle and which plainly proveth that the Polar Virtue is not from any North Starr as some have fansied for the Southern Polarity is not only a Consequence of the Northern nor that of it but both are equaly Polar in themselvs and the Needle accordingly changeth the Inclination of both its Poles which also the Directory Needle doth as farr as it can by a litle bowing down of its Poles toward one of the Poles of the Earth Nor is the Polarity from both Northern and Southern Effluvia as others affirm which cannot penetrate Glass as Magnetical Virtue doth for neither is there any penetration of several Bodys nor is Glass Porous nor yet Fluid as Water or Air or the like wherin we may suppose a Cession to any such Imperceptible Corpuscles which are only the Spawn of Epicurus his Atoms and can never be perceived by Sens in any greater or less Bodys so to pass nor are any Phaenomena themselvs and yet are Introduced to solv the Phaenomena and though they be supposed to be so Imperceptibly Minute yet must not only Move litle Needles but also contein the vast Magnetike Earth in its constant Polar Position against all the furious assalts of Air and Water and the conjoined force of their Storms and Tempests being such as could easily divert these Corporeal Effluvia and so prevent their Iâ—petâ—â— which yet must be supposed to be the same in a Calm or in a Storm becaus the Magnetike Operations are the same Wherefore plainly it is a Spiritual Quality Subsisting in the Substantial Spirit of the Magnet and both Inherent in it and Emanant from it like Light though in another maner as I shall shew heerafter and it doth only require Consistence and Drines as Social Qualitys of the same Element as Light doth Heat and also Density of the Matter as they do Rarity and by the want therof may be Corrupted as well as they and so Magnets by Rust Contusion and the like may lose their Actâ—al Virtue not becaus they are contrary unto it but becaus they disorder the Body therof as Wounds do Vegetative and Sensitive Bodys Certeinly the Magnetical Virtue in a Needle is not from any Northern and Southern Atoms or Corpuscles for plainly it is Excited by another Magnet Actualy being what it is Potentialy before in itself which evidently appears by the very quick and sudden Actuation therof almost like Heat and Light or Sound and the like though it will last longer in the State of Actuality then they becaus it hath no Contrary to oppugn and Corrupt it like them and yet rubbing it with another Magnet the contrary way doth assoon reduce it to Potentiality by drawing it from its Polar Longitude and destroying the Axis thereof and nothing doth more approve the Doctrine of Potentiality then such Experiments The Magnetical Virtue and Motions therof are most evidently discovered by the Magnetical Needle carried about a round Terrella for at the Aequator it doth apply itself Lateraly to the Magnetical Terrella and Parallel to the Axis becaus the Aequator of the Magnet or Terrella doth equaly attract the Aequator of the Needle as also the Poles of the Magnet do the Poles of the Needle when it is so applied to either of them And when it hath passed the Aequator the Correspondent Pole of the Needle begins to Incline and to point to the Correspoâ—dent Pole of the Magnet and so more and more untill it be Perpendicularly Erected at the very Pole And it is half Erected and makes a right Angle with the midle of the Axis of the Magnet though I suppose not exactly in the midst therof unless we estimate it according to the Oval Arch of the Magnetike Virtue yet becaus after it hath passed the very Aequator of the Magnet it doth no longer apply itself Lateraly having both its Poles equidistant from the Magnet but presently begins to touch the Magnet obliquely with one Pole pointing to the Correspondent Pole of the Magnet I also suppose that either Pole of the Magnet doth not attract beyond its own Hemisphere Northern or Southern but the Magnet beng Polar doth attract Circumferentialy from the Center for otherwise it should still caus the Needle to apply itself to the Magnet with some part of the Side therof though less and less and not touch it Immediately with the Pole untill it be Erected Perpendicularly at the Correspondent Pole of the Magnet as if two Chords were fastned to the two Poles or ends of the Needle and drawn through Hooks or Staples fixed at each Pole of the Magnet and so the Needle by them drawn beyond the Aequator therof by pulling in one Chord and letting out the other yet it should still apply part of the Side therof to the Magnet though less and less as I shewed but I refer this Hypothesis
all other Bodys Potentialy but never Actualy and so the whole Earth hath also Gravity and the like And as I have now disproved this pretended Motion of the Earth by the Magnetical virtue therof so I know no other Caus assigned of such a rapid Motion therof as must be supposed that is about fifteen Miles every Minute Diurnaly and almost fifty Annualy and the Dâ—stance between our Accesses and Recesses to or from the fixed Starrs should be about eight Millions of Miles which is a large stride and yet we perceiv no difference therof as we do of Mars who is placed in the fifth Sphere Nor is there any difference of a Bullet shott from a Gun East or West as there should be very consyderably according to this common Calculation and so of a Bullet drop'd from a a Steeple but they say the Bullet also is a Terrella and Moves with the Motion of the Earth and would prove it by the fallacious Experiment of an Arrow shot upright from a Ship sailing and falling down again in the same place but then if the Steeple also were removed as much as the Ship saileth the Bullet dropped from it should follow it which certeinly is not according to the Motion of the Earth or Terrella and therefore to defend this they have invented another wors Absurdity That there is I know not what Magical Line of Motion still continuing and interceding between the Mover and Moved after the Impression past and Contact discontinued but neither doth the Arrow flying spin any such Corporeal Thread or Line like a Spider nor the Archer shooting emitt any such Spiritual Radius like Emanant Heat which may so direct the Motion Certeinly a Parthian who shoots flying or a Ship sailing do not draw back the Arrow or Bullet after them nor will Stones so fall into the hand of a Boy playing at Checkstone without any answerable Motion therof whereby to catch them Neither is there any such Magnetical Stake reaching from the Subcortical Earth through the Cortex Water and Air and as some say to the Moon for Magnetical Virtue hath no such long or strong Orb like Light or Heat as no particular Magnet or Terrella doth Eradiate like a Candle or Spark of Fire Or if it should yet it could not Move Magneticaly any other Body that is not Magnetical or indeed that is not Consistent as a Stake in a Pond cannot direct the Motion of the Water in it or Air above it becaus they are Fluid and not Consistent Certeinly Birds in the Air though more Consistent are not Magnetical and though a Bullet of Iron be Consistent and Magnetical Potentialy yet if it be not so Actualy the former Experiments will be the same as if it were and if it have the Magnetical Virtue therof Actualy excited in itself then it is a Terrella in itself and consequently if the Earth which is the great Magnet Move round so should every such Terrella which it doth not as may be tried by any such round Bullet or Magnet placed upon its Axis in the most exact Aequilibrium wheras every part of Water severed from the Element therof is Water having all the Propertys therof and so should every such Magnet be a Terrella as indeed they call it having all the Magnetical Propertys therof and some Magnetical Doctors do therefore affirm very falsly that a Terrella so placed will Move round like the Earth who thereby very truly acknowledg this Consequence that if the Earth so Move the Terrella must also so Move wherefore since the Terrella doth not so Move neither doth the Earth so Move and though a Bullet flying when it is shot from a Gun by that Violent Motion doth also Move round as I have formerly shewed from another reason yet that may be any other way as well as the same way with the supposed Motion of the Earth and the Bullet drop'd from a Steeple and so falling downward by a Natural Motion doth not as I suppose Move round or not the same way with the supposed Motion of the Earth Thus every less Magnet not being one and the same with the Earth but Individualy such in itself and having its own Poles Axis Center and Aequator as well as the Earth as may appear if it be laid East and West in which Position it will a long time retein its own Polarity not only different but advers to the Polarity of the Earth which is North and South by its own Immobility doth also Sensibly prove the Immobility of the Earth And yet we must believ all the Motions therof which some Philosophers very confidently Suppose and vehemently Impose upon us maugre all our own Faith Reason and Sens becaus they tell us Scripture is Popular Reason Ancipitous and Sens Fallacious and so all other men must be governed only by the Magistery of their Fansys which whatsoever it may be to themselvs is certeinly no more to others then they can prove by Scripture Reason and Sens in which there is no Fallacy but only in our Apprehensions which are indeed our Infirmitys and ought to be rectified and corrected by other right Ratiocinations and Sensations and not by other Imaginations Thus wheras I have granted that supposing the Earth to Move constantly and equaly though never so swiftly if we were also carried on it we should not feel it to Move becaus we our selvs do not Move and yet I say that our Bodys being also in the Air should feel themselvs Moved against the Air though never so calm but especialy when the Wind bloweth the other way against the pretended Motion of the Earth which certeinly could not be Insensible but as I rather suppose Intolerable if their Imagination did not also Summove the Air for us by supposing both Water and Air to be parts of the great Magnet the Earth which is as contrary to all Sens as the other this Insensibility or Deception of Sens ought to be rectified by other right Sensations and not by such other Imaginations and Insensibilitys Again according to the very Analogy of Deception as the Sens senseth falsly in one case so it doth likewise in all like cases becaus there is the same reason therof And now also I will examin the supposed Motion of the Earth according to this Analogy of that Deception which they so strongly urge for it and I shall only change that Vers which is their usual Tex accordingly Provehimur Terra Coelum Stellaque recedunt and so as a Man in a Ship sailing by the Shore seems to see the Earth and Towns to Move which do not and doth not feel himself to be Moved as indeed he is if he were so Moved by the Motion of the Earth which must be two hundred times more swiftly then any Ship doth sail he should seem to see the Moon and Planets to Move Visibly which he doth not and though against this is objected the greater distance of the Moon and Starrsâ— yet that is recompensed
World according to which any Part or Particular Body therof is said to be Higher or Lower that is more Outward or Inward and two Poles of the Earth wherof the Axis doth Intersect the Center by one determinate Line ending in two certein Points and so directing it and thereby determining North and South and consequently all the Points of the Compass And so there are also two Opposite Circumvolutions of Aether and Aethereous Bodys which Denominate East and West in all such Circumvolutions one way or other as I shall shew heerafter And according to these Real Differences I suppose all the several Localitys and Motions of any other Bodys in the World which may be as Various as all Mathematical Figures may be Determined and Denominated Also becaus all Spirits whether Material or Immaterial are within the whole Body of the World which no one of them can Possess or fill or be Coextended with it all therefore they are in some Definite Place or Vbi therof and not in another according to that Proper Place of the Matter which they Possess though Matter itself be only in such a Proper Place Circumscriptively and Extensively becaus it only hath Extension of itself and Spirits and Spiritual Qualitys by being Localy therin do acquire such a Definitive Coextension therwith and thereby which Coextension is the Commune Vinculum of Matter and of all Spirits whereby such are Immaterial and do not Consubstantiate Matter nor Inhere in it in Staetu Conjuncto â—s Angels Magnetical Virtue Emanant and the like yet are in it and in some certein Vbi thereof though in Statu Separato aswell as the others and their Coextension is the same though there be not the same Consubstantiation or Inhesion as I have shewed and the other which we call Material are indeed no more Matter nor Material then Angelical Spirits but only so termed by way of Distinction from such their Consubstantiation and Inhesion being in themselvs truly Spirits in Bodys as I have therefore so called them all by one general Name as well as Angels out of Bodys as Inherent Magnetical Virtue is a Spiritual Quality as well as Emanant and though they be indeed Inferior and less Spiritual Kinds of Spirits then Immaterial in many other respects and therefore so distinguished as I have said yet they are all of the same Universal Kind or Genus of Spirits and so as much Contradistinguished from Matter therefore are no more Matter nor Material in that sens one then another Which I shall again and again desire Materialists to consyder and remind and rightly to understand these Terms of Material and Immaterial Spirits as I have explained them and to judg therof according to â—he Things themselvs and not of Things according to mistaken Terms or otherwise to waiv the Terms wholy and call Matter Body and every such Form or Substantial Activity Spirit whether Conjunct or Separate and so to apprehend them rightly in our Minds as they are in their own Nature Wheras some who have not so cleared these Terms and Notions to themselvs either affirm all Spirits to be Matter or that there are only Material Spirits And I begg of every Christian Philosopher who believeth that there are Angelical Spirits and Spirits of Men after Death thus Separate from the Matter only as freely and fairly to Contemplate them in his Mind as he doth the Matter and Spiritual Qualitys as he doth the Corporeal Quantity and so prepare himself to be a fitt Judg of what I shall prove unto him beyond any Postulation and I hope that thereby every Materialist may so Purifie and Spiritualise his own Immaterial Mind which is now too farr Immersed and Ingaged in the Matter that he may also himself clearly discern Spirits and Spiritual Qualitys by his own Spiritual Light beyond all my Probations wheras some becaus they do not Distinguish between Extension and Coextension therefore Confound Bodys and Spirits and so becaus they do not distinguish between Extension and Matter therefore Confound Substances and Accidents and becaus they do not distinguish between Extension and Vacuity therefore Confound Entity and Nonentity And though they will not allow Spirits to be in the Body of Matter and the Coextension therof to be their Ubi yet they can Suppose Matter itself and the very Extension therof to be in some other Vbi or somthing which they call Space and which must either be another Extension without a Body or the same or Nothing though as Position is only a particular Consideration or Notion of Extension as the Body or any Part therof is in its own Extension so Space is only another Particular Consyderation or Notion of Extension as the Body or any Part therof is in so much of that Extension and neither of them are Realy any Things in themselvs Absolutely as Extension or Relatively as Place and though these are such particular Notions of Somthing Real that is of Extension yet Vacuity consydered in itself as no Extension of Matter can not be so much as any Notion whatsoever of any thing Real for then it should be Space which Realy is the same with Extension of Matter wherof it is only such a particular Notion Wherefore they must conceiv it to be another Extension without Matter or as I may so say another Imaginary Extension of Extension or that wherin both the Matter and also Extension therof is and so we may proceed Infinitely but all such Process Infinite is most Contrary to Finite Nature and to all Philosophy becaus as I have said it is only the vaine Reduplication in Terms of the same Thing in itself Now if Matter and Extension were one and same then Matter needeth none other such Imaginary Extension or Vacuous Space wherin it may be Extended becaus it is Extended in itself otherwise it should not also be Extension or if Matter be the Substance and Extension the Proper and Inseparable Accident and Affection therof then also it needeth none other such Imaginary Extension or Vacuous Space wherin it may be Extended becaus it is Extended by its own Extension Wherefore Vacuity is neither Matter nor Extension nor any Real Relation nor Notion therof nor indeed any Thing or Entity whatsoever but meerly Nothing or Nonentity wherof it is only a particular Consyderation or Notion as Nullity or a Cyphar is of Number or Nontime of Time and the like Improper Notfinites wherof I have formerly discoursed Nor is it any Privative founded in Positives which thereby Complexively may be Consydered and seem to be Somthing but a particular Negative and the very Negation of that which is the Respective Affirmative Being that is both of Matter and Extension and so it is neither Long nor Short Broad nor Narrow High nor Low having no Longitude Latitude or Profundity otherwise it should be the same with Extension which we all acknowledg and should not differ about Terms but as consydered severaly from it it is Nothing and Notfinite and so
Glass so Capillar as may be wound about the finger though Glass be very fragile And though I conceiv Hardnes and Softnes to be only different Sensibilitys of Consistence or the degrees therof as more Consistent doth more resist the Touch and less less yet Fragility and Ductility are different kinds of Consistence itself for Consistence hath both a Strength and Rigor of the whole Body which Fragility also hath and Ductility hath not and likewise a Spiritual Cohesion and Tenacity of all the parts therof which Ductility hath and Fragility hath not so perfectly as proper Consistence and therefore Fragile Bodys as Glass are easily Broken but will not so easily Bend and Ductile Bodys as Wax will easily Bend but are not so easily Broken nor indeed do I conceiv any Body to be properly Consistent and such as will neither Break nor Bend except only the Subcortical Earth which is Elementary and hath the proper Qualitys therof in their greatest Actuality as Aether hath Heat and Light wheras other Cortical Bodys though most Rigid as Iron and the like may be Broken or Bent yea by Fusion become Ductile and Fluid so that Ductility is partly from Moisture and is only an imperfect Consistence which though it be not the same with Drines is very much assisted by it as I have shewed Also Fragile Bodys of less Crassitude may Bend more as I said before of very slender Glass becaus there is less Distortion that is less Expansion in the outward Convexity and Compression in the inward Concavity of the Arch or Angle that it makes in Bending and the very Bending before it Breaks shews that there is some Ductility in it which is an Imperfection of Consistence and this doth plainly appear in Glass heated which is farr more Ductile and molten which is Fusile whence also it hath that other Imperfection therof that is Fragility which it betrays when it is cooled but I conceiv that Fragility is a less Imperfection of Consistence then Ductility becaus that appears in Actual Drines and this in Actual Moisture And Fragile Bodys though somwhat Flexile yet if they be not over-bent will return again very smartly to their Position which we call Springines and will not stand bent as we say as Ductile unles the Rigor which is properly every way as it were by so many Radii from the Center to the Circumference be overcome by long continuance And this Springines is only a Return to the Position of the Consistent Body and not as Elastical Potentia which is to the Density or Rarity of more Fluid Bodys according to that Natural Rigor or Temper of Bodys which the Spirits require and caus to be in them and from which they are Violently diverted and therefore so suddenly and forcibly return unto it again if the Violence do not continue so long as to caus the very Spirit to conform unto that Figure as I have shewed though it will hardly conform to that Temper in Elastical Bodys as also Vegetative and Sensitive Spirits will hardly conform to Inorganical Figures Now Consistence being not a Compound but Simple Quality of Earth therefore it doth contein Earthy Bodys together if they be Continuous though very various and different Composita for so it conteins both the Subcortical and Cortical Earth and all the Rocks Mountains and Eminences therof as one Compages and so Brick and Mortar when it is dried do not only Adhere as Water and Glass but Cohere and Consist together becaus though they be several Composita or Mista of all the Elements yet their Consistence is common to them all as they are Earthy Bodys as Matter doth therefore so Unite itself in all the Bodys of various Composita in the World I have seen an old Brick Chimny undermined and pulled down to fall like a Pillar of Timber without any Breaking which consequently had one Center of Consistence that did contein all the Earthy parts therof together as a Needle hath which is half Silver and half Steel and as the whole Body of Matter hath one Center to which it all tendeth though varied into the several Bodys of Innumerable Composita VIII As Siccity and Consistence are not one and the same Quality of Earth so much less Consistence and Magnetical Virtue though that require a Consistence as Consistence doth Siccity but as I have said Consistence doth only Contein and Arrect the Parts in the whole Body generaly and indifferently every way wheras Magnetical Virtue doth Direct it particularly in one Relative Place or Position which we call Polar unto North and South whereby the Difference between Positive Extension in its own Vbi and Relative Place may plainly appear for a Magnet is in its own Ubi as any other Body but besides it hath such a Relative Position which is Polar whereby the Polar Points therof North and South are so Directed as that they will not be placed otherwise and so thereby consequently all the other Points and Parts therof in the Whole though the Whole be only in its own Vbi as any other Body Also Consistence is without any Motion for it is the same whether the Body Move or not but Magnetical Virtue hath a Verticity to reduce it to its Polar Position Again Consistence is Orbicular as the Strength of a Wooden Wheel is equal at the Extremity of every Radius being equidistant from the Center but Magnetical Virtue is much stronger at the Poles then at the Extremitys of the Aequator as I shall shew heerafter and indeed otherwise it should not be so Polar or North and South more then East and West Also Consistence hath no Emanation like Magnetical Virtue and there are many such other Differences But yet as I said Consistence is an Auxiliary Quality therof being both Connatural Qualitys of the same Element And so the Elementary Earth probably is most Consistent and most Magnetical and the Magnet-Stone is also very Consistent and so is Iron Mine and especialy Iron and Steel which are the Extractions therof and I know not whether there might not be some such Extraction of the Magnet Stone more Magnetical then the Stone or Mine therof but certeinly the Elementary Earth is farr more Magnetical then any other Magnet becaus it is Elementary and also becaus it is so vastly great whereby there is a proportionable Increment of the Virtue and this is proved by the very strong Emanations therof which penetrate the whole Cortex of the Earth as appears by the Inclinatory Needle for Magnetical Virtue like Consistence hath no Contrary becaus it is only for Direction and Position of its own Body though Density as well as Longinquity may hinder or abate it as they do any other Spiritual Powers whatsoever but not repell and reflect it Also the Magnetike Earth by the Emanations therof doth Excite and Actuate the Potential Polarity which is in some Cortical Bodys as Iron Barrs which have stood long in a Polar Position or Iron and as some say Brick-earth
therof and so render that Polar as may be sensibly seen in any Terrella whereby it is plainly proved that the Magnetical Virtue is a Spiritual Quality which can so remove itself from any part of the Body of the Matter to another and not any fixed Affection of the Matter itself yet Planetary Virtue being seated in the whole Orbicular Body of the Planet doth not nor can it so remove itself becaus it always possesseth the whole Body not Polarly or Ovaly but Orbicularly or at least it is therefore not to be discerned so to vary its own Situation in the Planetary Body Now as God in the First Day did Actuate that proper Aethereal Virtue which also may be termed Planetary causing it thereby to Move about the Inferior Globe from East to West in fower and twenty hours or therabout whereby he made Day and Night which could not otherwise be without such a Circumgyration of the Aether and of the Globe of Light therin as now the Aether doth still Move with all the Planets and Starrs in it whose Planetary Virtue is diversified into several other Motions which yet are all only Planetary Motion Genericaly as if wheras the Polar Position of the Magnetike Earth is only North and South God should have diversified it in other Magnets or Terrellae and made some East and West and so to any other Points so it is also said that in this Fourth Day he made Lights in the Firmament of Heaven to divide the Day from the Night that is to caus more particular Variations therof longer or shorter sooner or later and the like which must be by their Planetary Virtues Actuated in them whereby they Move respectively in the Aether as the Aether doth about the Inferior Globe and so they were not only for Days but also for Years Months and the like which though more or less then the Solar Year are the respective Years of their particular Planets Lunar Jovial or the like as we commonly call them And so God made not only the two great Lights to rule the Day and the Night that is the Sun and Moon as both Scripture and Nature do declare but it is said He made the Starrs also And God sett them in the Firmament of Heaven so as to perform these several Offices by all their various Courses Thus I conceiv that the Aether having the Planetary Virtue therof Actuated in it in the First Day when God said Let there be Light a great part of that Aethereal Light was divided from the common Light of Aether which was left and still is in the whole Body therof though not so Visible to us and that Globe of Light as it was generaly Connatural with the Aethereal Light being in one Hemispere of Aether was carried about Diurnaly by it and with it and not any other way by any special Planetary Virtue in itself which was not Actuated before this Fourth Day but that this common Globe of Light so divided and wherof we have no other account was the Chaos of the Potentialitys of all the Planetary Virtues which were afterward educed out of it and that then they were not only Moved in and with the common Aether Diurnaly but by their own special Planetary Virtues Predominant in them and directing every one of them to Move according to their several Courses for though Locomotive Virtue be common to Aether and all Aethereal Bodys yet the Motion of Aether from East to West Diurnaly was by a proper Planetary Virtue as I have said Actuated in it when God so divided it from that Globe of Light which is eminently called Light and made Day and so mutualy that Globe of Light from the rest of the Aether and Aethereal Light which is Comparatively called Darknes becaus it made only Night as I have shewed And so this particular Chaos of all the Planetary Potentialityâ— being so divided from the common Aether and not having any Planetary Virtue Actuated therin was carried about in and with the common Aether in the three First Days and then it was again divided into all the particular Planets and all their particular Planetary Virtues were respectively Actuated therin and by those special Planetary Virtues they perform all their several Planetary Motions and Courses Nor is it less wonderfull if we rightly consyder it how they Move in their several Zodiaks being indeed no such Gemmeous Studds or Bullae fixed in the Aether as some have imagined for both the Aether and they also being Aethereal Bodys are Fluid nor do they Fly or swim therin by any Spontaneous Power like Fowls in the Air and Fishes in the Sea becaus they are not Spontaneous but they are all Aetheruli as I may so term them and so their Original Globe of Light was only such a particular Portion of the common Body of Aether not differing from the rest but only as it was more Lucid for so it is said of the formation therof that God divided the Light from the Darknes in the Aether but not any part of the Aether from the Light or the Light from it nor is the Body of the Sun or any Planet more Condensated as I have shewed though they shall heerafter sink through the Fluid Aether to the Air and Earth at the Last Day when they shall be discomposed and disordered wheras now they are Connaturaly adapted to the Aethereal Heaven and so it is said of the Light Fiat Luminaria in Expanso and they are all equaly Expanded in it but their Light is farr more Conspissated as it was in their Original Globus and yet such Conspissation of a Spiritual Quality doth not make the Lucid Body to be more Dens or Grave which also proves Light not to be Corporeal but a Spiritual Quality as I have said and indeed as all Heat doth Naturaly Rarefy so should they be rather made more Rare and Light thereby but that Aethereal Bodys are already as Rare as any Elementary Power can make them to be and yet though we may easily conceiv them being Equirare with the common Body of Aether to be poised therin as Glass Bubbles in Water it is also to be consydered why or how they should still Move in their Regular Circularitys and not to be diverted or removed as such Glass Bubbles may very easily be and we have the true account heerof in the Text Posuit he sett them so at first and so they are still continued not by an Immediate Manutenence as he doth not Move them by an Immediate Manuduction but by the same Planetary Virtue Actuated in them and causing them Naturaly so to Move in their own Zodiaks Now becaus as I have observed there is no Produxit of any of these Planets as there was before of Vegetatives and afterward of Sensitives and indeed becaus there was such a Globe of Light decided before from the Aether which was the common Chaos of them all and wherof they were so many particular Decisions I conceiv that they were