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A46234	An history of the wonderful things of nature set forth in ten severall classes wherein are contained I. The wonders of the heavens, II. Of the elements, III. Of meteors, IV. Of minerals, V. Of plants, VI. Of birds, VII. Of four-footed beasts, VIII. Of insects, and things wanting blood, IX. Of fishes, X. Of man / written by Johannes Jonstonus, and now rendred into English by a person of quality.; Thaumatographia naturalis. English	Jonstonus, Joannes, 1603-1675.; Libavius, Andreas, d. 1616.; Rowland, John, M.D.	1657 (1657)	Wing J1017; ESTC R1444	350,728	372

hath two motions the greatest is Southward Let it suffice what Scaliger writes Exerc. 131. Nature saith he is at concord and agrees with her self she unites by an admirable order all things above and below that it may be one by a perpetual necessity So that there are in things seperated not only steps entrances and retreats but also minglings of those things which seem to be wholly parted Bodinus pronounceth that all the 4 parts of the world are equally respected by the Loadstone Theatr. natur l. 2. For saith he the steel needle easily rubbed upon the Loadstone from that part of the Loadstone that pointed North before it was cut out of the rock if the needle be equally ballanced the end rubbed with the Loadstone will turn to the North. The same force there is to the South part if he needle be rubbed on the South part of the Loadstone Nor is the force lesse for the East or West part of the Loadstone though the stone cannot turn it self to the Poles of the world but only the steel needle that is touched with it But this I have said cannot be understood but by experience for if you put a peice of Loadstone upon a peice of Wood swimming in the water and you apply that side of the Loadstone that looked Southward before it was cut out of the Rock to the side of another Lodstone that looked Southward also before it was hewen forth the stone that swims will fly unto the opposite part of the Vessel with water but if you turn the Northern part of the Loadstone to the Southern part of another Loadstone swimming in the water the Loadstone that swims presently comes and joyns with it so that th●● both unite by an admirable harmony of nature though the Wood or the Vessell of water be between The same will be done if you put only an iron Needle thrust through a quil into a Vessell of water and hold in your hand a peice of a Loadstone one side of the Loadstone will drive off the needle the other will draw it So saith Bodin What concerns drawing that the Loadstone doth draw is maintained of the Aethiopian Loadstone Plin. l. 36. c. 16. experience hath proved it Libavius I saith he when I proved this wiped off all dust from the Loadstone and then I scraped away some powder of its own substance this was laid upon a paper or plank of wood and the powder scraped from it was laid under it the Loadstone moved and attracted The Loadstone draws the Loadstone by a certain line because there is a spirit in it like to the other and nature enclines and is carried to its like as much as may be It is as certain that it draws Iron also The hardnesse of Iron gives way and obeys and that matter which tames all things runs to I know not what empty thing and as it comes nearer it stands still and is held and sticks in imbraceings Plin. l. 36. c. 26. The vertue of it was found out when the nails of his shoos and top of his crook stuck fast for the first inventor was a Heyward Nor doth it draw Iron on each part with the same force The rule seems to be a right line Therefore where the vertue comes not the ends are turned and whilst one of them inclines to the needle the other accidentally turns from it and seems to reject it The same reason serves for divers Loadstones In the Midland Seas of Sardinia at the foot of the Mountaines that part they bend Eastward they say there is a Loadstone that draws Iron but on the opposite part one that drives it off and therefore it is called Theamedes Plin. l. 2. Wherefore do we go to Mountaines We may see it in every laboratory if we will beleive Libavius Syntagm Art Chymic Tract 1. l. 1. c. 19. There are opposite parts in one and the same stone contrary to the rest and it hath an example of sympathy and antipathy in it self as Vipers Scorpions and venemous Creatures have in themselves both their friends and their enemies I shall set down some examples of attraction Severus Milevitanus saw when Bathanarius heretofore governour of Africa put Silver under between the Stone and the Iron the Iron on the top moved and the Silver was in the middle and suffered nothing but with a most swift retrait the Man drew the stone downward and the stone drew the Iron upward August de civitat Dei lib. 21. cap. In Alexandria in Aegypt at the roof of the Temple of Serapus there was a Loadstone fastned in which held an Idol that had an Iron in the head so fast that it hung between the roof and the ground Euseb in Histor. Eccles. Agricola said he saw a round looking glasse that was three hands breadth broad and two high in the concave part whereof there was a Loadstone included above Agricola de subter●●n that drew an Iron boul placed at the bottom of the glasse unto it self so that the thick body of the glasse could not hinder the force of it the Iron Globe that useth to fall down was carried up Let us come to the cause and inquire whence comes this force in the Loadstone Each man speaks diversly and so many men allmost so many opinions Libav l. 1. de Bitum c. 12 saith that there is a bituminous nature in the Loadstone reduced to the disposition of Iron by a similitude of sympathy and mixture whereby the same principles grow in Iron And he adds that there is an Iron bituminous spirit common to them both but it flows not out continually and as strong from Iron as from the Loadstone by reason of the diversity of coagulation or commis●ion Others attribute that to the hidden forme Others alleage a mutual harmony of naturall things There are in the great world saith Langius l. 2. Epist. 55 under the concave of the Moon some things that by a secret consent agree wonderfully together The truth is the Loadstone is some kind of vein of Iron and Iron may be generated of it Sennert l. 8. Epit. c. 4. But the Loadstone loseth its attractive force if you work it in the fire For whilest it burns the brimstony spirit of it flyes forth as Libav l. 2. singul thinks We saw saith Porta Mag. natur l. 7. c. 7. with great delight the Loadstone buried in burning Coles to cast forth a blew brimstony Iron kind of flame which being dispersed the quality of its life departed and it lost its power to attract It yields to the injuries of the weather and dies with old age The expiring of it is hindred by oyntments rub'd upon it and the tenacious juice of Leeks others add oyle of Bricks Lem. l. 4. c. 10. de occult But Cardanus l. 7. de subtil denyeth this It will not lay hold on rusty Iron and much lesse on rust Scaliger Exerc. 112. Otherwise if Iron-filings were buried in dust or the Iron be on the other side of the