I. Problem,

There is a ftrongUnion in a Load-ftone , armed with fteel , and heavier weight ^:,j„, may be by it taken up, than if it be not armed. iV. i. c«f. i,,
Migntt, ' ^fflication.
The reafon is, becaufe vis imta eftfonior- for the Iron addecb force unto a Load- ftone that is weak, as is confirmed by this Problem. ■»•
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Kidl Mainet.c.i*.Z the Load-lione, between the Load-ftone and the weighc; then the Magnet will lift up double, and fometimes decuple , or ten tim^is fo much again. And from this praftice came the capping or arming of the Adamant with Steel or Iron , after di- vers manners.
Apfllsat'iofi.
By the like correlation. If that the animal Magnet be armed with the vegetable power, it will more forcibly attract unto it,lpirits from the greater animal Magnetj or rather the animal Iron. Alfo this Problem following is worthily to be noted.
3. Problem,
piracdf.TraS. Every Body unto the which the lively Mummy of another man is adminiflred 3. de Philof. ' or drunk up , doth forthwith become a Magnet , and will be armed to attraft his liljgi
Application,
And therefore the lively Mummy of the decaying member , being in part inclu- ded in the nailes and hair thereof, and afterward conveyed mco the veget able body, that vegetable body which receiveth them , is madeforthwith magneticall , and draweth to it the fpirits of the member,and doth impart unto chem of his vegetable power. And alfo the magnetick Mummy in the hair and nails , though of them- • felvc; they are but weak , yet are they made more (Irong and forcible , by being planted m a itroflger magnetick vegetable, fo that the one doth fortifie and enable the other. This is demonHrated by this Problem.
^ Prokem,
A weak Magnet being rubbed at one of the poles of a ftronger j will be bettered by it in his vigour and vertue. ,
DemonJiratioK,
RiJkf in hit Alfo, fet 3 Magnet of fmall force f-hat can be perceived, upon a Load-flone of a Mig.trttt.c.i6 good ftrength and vigour, efpecially upon the poles, and he will fhewa vigour, as if he were as ttrong as the itronger Stone is, whereunto heis united.
Apflicatien.
So by the like reafon, we may tranfplanc the fuperfluouscxcrcfcences, in which thereappeareth but a fmall figne of any magnetick vertue, upon a Ihonger vege- table Magnet, or magneticall plant, and efpecially in his pith or axil-tree , and he will fhew forth a magnetick vigour, equall unto that of the plant, whi.happea- reth in this, namely, becaufe it doth dire^a by his beatis the vegetable power, un- to the decayed member. Now that the reference between the tree and the mem- ber is caufedbya fpirituall continuity , it is made plain by this magneticall Pro- blem,
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Aidl. lib.c.17. Ifalong IronbeconjoyneduntothepoleoftheLoad-itone, and unto the end of this another be laid, and at the endof thar a third, and fo forward, the Adamant will, by vertue of his beamy emanating fpirit, hold them all, or mod of them, ac- cording unto the vigour thereof, all touching one another , and cleaving together like a linked chain.
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Applicatloft.
Whereby it is evident, thatasthefpiricoftheLoad-ftone is contiouatc, and by his continuity is apt to faikn and joyn bodies in a union, from his center unto his fpirituall circumference; evenfo,by the emanation from the double Magnet , united in one, from their centeruntothc weak line or member, there is caufed and ingendrcd a continuall fuccelTion of vegetation in it , by degrees. Now that two Magnets uniting their forces in one, do emit a more vigorous emanation, and are endued with a greater magneticall force , it is proved in the fecond Problem of the third Demonllration of the fecond Chapter, before mentioned.
CHAP. VI.
Herein is proved , that vegetables contain in themfelves magnetica 7 fpirits > iy meam ■ffhtreof, thej dofenfibly attract, as well from the Animal^ as yegetable a*id Mine- ral kingdom : And it isfirfi exprejfed hy two Propofttlons^' and main* talned Ojf divers experimental Demonfirations ,
The firfi Propofit'ion.
THere is a magneticall vertue , as well in the vegetable , as in the animal and mineral, whichdoth operate and aft attradively ,both on his like in the vege- table, and alfo in the animal and mineral.
The firfi experimental Demonfiration,
The experience hereof is manifold , and by that which hath been related in the precedent Chapter, tha: the magneticall relation or union whith is made between the vegetable and the animal, is fufficiently exprefled , 3nd{h.'llbe more at large enucleated hereafter. Again if one that hath an Ague do take the herb called Iberis^ namely, a handfull thereof, and put it into either of his (Tioes , and walketh upon it untill he wax very hoc , he will find, that it wUl draw a g'-eat deal of waterifli matter downward, and cure theague. But (faith my Matter that taught me ; it is not to be caft in the way that man or beaft doth pafs , for the animal that treadeth on it will be infefted, and beaguifli. This Chrifiopher Schitfz,ett, aGerinan, did af- firm that he had tryed this, and found it to be true.
2 Experience.
Joannes Carfmanus delivsreth it for a truth, that warts are taken away out of the hands and other places, by taking of Itrawes , and cutting the knots in them , and he prepareth in that manner two for every wart, and the (trawes muft be of a fingers length, which being thus prepared, you mull put two fedtions of the knots in this fafhion X upon every wart, fo that the nodes do touch direftly the warts, and they mult Itrongly be prefled down i and this mutt be done unto every wart with a double rtraw, as is already faid. Then take thofe ftrawes , and dig a hole under a fpout or gutter, and cover it with a ftone ; and you (hall find (^faith he ) that as the ilrawes do rot, fo alfo will the warts confume away.
J. Experimentall Demtnfiration,
Mr. Balthaz^ar Wagner faith, that he hath oftea tryed this magneticall cure , in f^^jj^j^^,, pjt the inflammation and rednefs of the eyes mott true; hetaketh the root of ^^^ thiCmirtlkn. common Mallow, when the Sun is in the middle oi^irgo^ and applyeth it back- ward unto the nuke or nape of the neck, binding it faflthereunta, averring, thac it will attraft and draw unto it with efficacy, all the caufe of the rednefs.
4. Experimentall Demonfiration,
As there is a kind of Load-ttone called Ez/^a-, which ?% doth affiim toh-iveap/in./.37.
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Magnetkall power to attract flefli unco it j. So alfo in anorher place he tellech us that there is another kind of Magnetick Stone, called 5 a d:t, which harh a property to draw wood unto ir fo lirongly, that they cannot bi feparated from one another, except the wood be cut off from it. But kaving thefe things as uncre- dible, I will relate unto you, that mutuall love and fympathericall affeftion, which ( to my knowledgj) hath been found between the Vcgetabk and the Mi- nerall.
5. Experimentall Vtmonflranen.
There are divers men which do work in the Mines in Gerwa»y^ of which a cou- ple were imployed about the Silver-Mines in iVales, who do ule to gather at a due feafon, a forked rod of the Hazel-tree, and holding in either hand one of the two twigs in fuch manner, that the part where the fork beginneth tobeperpendicularC~^, therein fo great a fympathy berweenthis vegetable and the Mine , if it be rith, that the man that marcheth on the hill where the Mine is , and holdeth this Hazel- rod in this polture, fhall p'.:fcntly perceive the top o- perpendicular of the rod to inclin&violently downward, \vhenrhemantreade:hona place, whe-eany Mine is; which is an evident Argument of the Magneticall afFettion , which is between . the one and the other,
6. Exyerimettt,
A man that hath many boils in his body , ivas counfelled (when other things would not cure him) by an old woman , to find out a bramble which groweth out of the earth at bo:h ends, or both ends rooted in the ground: and this man was counfelled to creep in his cloches under the bramble backwards, threetimes, and he was cured; fo his boils vanifhed by little and little, in five or fixdaies, Mr. Tuller.
2. Tro^ofnioH.
The fingular order , and fympathy or antipathy of the vegetable parts between themfelves, isdefcribcd and typically fet forth, by a relation or refpect, had be- tween it and the Load-ltonc; whereby is argued, that the vegetable and minersU, and confequently the animal obfcrve one fympatheticall , or harmonicall propor- tion, as well in their fympatheticall order, as ancipacheticall irregularity in their diforder.
A Problem for theconfirTnttien of the fore faid Pro^ofnlon,
In all Magneticall things, be they vegetable or minerall, and confequently ani- mall; evermore nature doth tend unto a convenient unity, boch in nature and pofition : and cone rariwife, where their parts do not according unto the courfc of natura, incline unto a conjunftion, therehappenethadiHurbance, and as ic were a diverfity between part and part.
Demonjiramnin the Miner (dl Magnet,
Take a long Load-ftone or Minerall Magnet, and let it be C,D; and let C, be
CVhtrt- 5. W.^^s North Pole, B, and D, the South A; Then divide this long Load- Hone in the
iap.6.d€ rniddle between the two poles, where thexquator palTerh, namely in E, F, and
jw^rf. Ej will be South or 3cquino£tiall unto the pole D, and F, unto the pole C. As
therefore thefe parts of theLoad-ftone did refpeft one another in their entire difpo-
fition ; So alfo nature tendeth after their divilion , to unite them again. And
therefo'e where the divifionis made, the end E- defireth and coveteth to cleave
and adhere unto F. But E. will not be joyned or have any commerce with D, not
yet F, with C,and then onemuft convert C,umoD, and they will well agree and
DC combinated together.
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For D, turneth to the South as before, and C, to the North- But E,aDdF, which fhould be parts naturally conjoyned, and united in the Stone, are info do- ing mightily difplaced, fo that they do not accord and unite together by a materiall union, bur they receive their motion and inclination from the form of the Stone; So that the ends of this Stone, whether they are disjoynedor united, do Magne- tically tend after one manner unto the poles of the earth, both in its firft entire and divided figure, as in the fecond ; and the Magnecicall concourfe F, E, in the fccond figure into one body, will be as perfefl as that of C, D, even as it was en- gendered in his vein, and F, E, as the flote in their bo\it.
application unto the Vegetable,
Gilbert.
This {elf-fame conveniency and inconveniency of the M^gneticall Form, which jjj, *, f^^, is noted to be in the Minerall Magnet, will alfo be obferved in vegetables: Foe take a wand or rod of a Willow Tree, or any other Plant, which gcoweth eafily, and let it be A, B, and A is the uppermoft part of the rod, and B the lower part.
next unto the root : divide this rod in the middle D, C: I fay then, that if the end D, be grafted a^ain in the end C, it will grow. Alfo if B, be grafted on A, they willbeconfolidated together, and fprout forth : But if D, be grafted upon A, or C.uponB, theywillbeat fttife, and confequencly will never grow , bur one of them mult needs dye, by reafon of the prepotterous order and inconvenient polt- tion> becaufe that the vegetative force or vigor , which proceedeth after one man- ner , is now diverted, and compelled or forced Into contrary parts.
I will fay no more touching this point, but proceed unto the main burthen of thefe pra tion.
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CHAP. VI.
Hov the feifihlity ar.i ^oJJwUitj of the MagneticaUmantter »f curtly the fyfopoft-falvc,
tsproducedf Anddswonjiratedto hcnaturall : The which ihi: tft may the better
effect y ve vUl firj} fet down our tnAn Pro^ofition touching this kind of
cure ; andifterwArdelttcid^te andclesrlj demonfl-rAte it hi evi"
dent proofs, derived effecialij from the virtue
of the LoAd-Jiene,
The Propoftien.
IF after the wound is made, a portion of the wound's externall blood, with his in- ward fpirits, o:of his intemall I'pirits ondy , that have penetrated into the weapon, or any other thing, which hath learched the depth ot the wound, be conveyed from the wound, at any reafonable, but unlimited or unknown diuance, unto an Ointment , whofe compoiition is Balfamick, and agreeing fpecifically with the nature of the creature lo wounded j and be in a decent and convenienc manner adapted, and, as it were, trarfplanted or grafted into it ; the oyntment fo animated by thofe fpuits will become forthwith magneticall , and apply with a itiagneticali afpecl o: regard unto the beamy fpirits , which ilream forth inviiibly from the wound , being direded thereunto by thofefpirituall bloody fpirits in the weapon, orcther thing, which faath received or included chem; and the lively and four hern beams ftreaming and flowing from the wound , will with the northern at- tracliion of the oyntment, fo ma^necically animated, concur and unite rbemfelves with the northern and congealed , or fixed bloody fpirits contained in the oynt- ment, and ftir them to aft fouchernly, that is, from the center to the circumfe- rence ; fo that by this reciprocall aftion, union, or continuity, the lively fouthern beams will ad and revive the chill, fixt, or northern beams , whichdo animate the oyntment with a magneticall vertue , and quickned fpirits of the oyntment, ani- mated by the fpirits of them both, and direfted by the fpirits which were firit tranf- plantedinto it , dothimpart by the faidmnion or continuity , his balfamick and fanative vertue unto the fpirits in the wound, being firll mrgnetically attracted; and they afterwards by an unfeperable harmony , rran-fer it back again unto the wound. And this is the reafon of that fym.pathetii all and amip.itheticall reference orrefpeft, which is by experience obferved to be between the oyntment and the wound , fothat if the wkolefpace of the weapon that made the wound, be covered and annointed with the unguent, and the unguenr be well wrapped and kept warm, thewound will ftndconfolation,andbe at eafe 5 bu"^ if a part of the oyntment be pared away , or wiped off from the weapon , it hath been often tryed, that pain or dolour will immediately cnfue and afflift the wound. Moteover, if the place a- noyntedbekept temperately warm, the wound will ^Ifo --eft in temper; but if it be uncovered, and left in the open cold aire, then will it happen , that thewound will alfo be diftempered and vexed with cold.
Certain Prch'emau'call Dcmor.jhations ^ to prove the ferefati Propojition tt he true in ever 2 point, and coKfeejuemly to mamfefi this mtotner of Magical cure to h ef- felied Naturally , and tlnrefore not CacomagicaHy.
The particulars of the forefaid Propofition are eafily proved and maintained byfuch ocular dem- nft rations , as may be produced from the vertuous operation of the minerall Load-Hone , unto the which we may rightly compare all magneti- call bodies, with their actions, becaufe they have their denominations from the mineral magnet, and therefore this weapon-falve is tearmedby fome men. Ur. ucn- tam mair.et cum, and the cure is alfo called Magnericall. I proceed therefore in ny pu-pofe after thi-; fafliion, to prove the Propofition punitually , and therefore I divide it into members or portions.
The fir ^ member ofthofe Propoflthins , rr/r/; certain experimmtall Conclyf.OKs Jrom the Load-Jlone to confi'ntt tt.
Fiili therefore we gather bythefaid precedent Propofition , that two magneri-
call
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call bodies ofa like nature, may ipifitually mecc andconjoyne together by alike natucall inclination. Andthat the weapon wounding , oiocher materiall penetra- ting, doth imbibe the fpirits, and is made magneticall.
1 ProdUmaticall Demon/lration, taken from the Load-Jtomt,
Take two Loadftone'; , and place them in fmall wooden veffells » or boats of Corker wood, and fet them upon a bafm, or tub,or cilkrn of water, fo that each of ihe Magnets may afpedt one anoth-;r,within the viiible orb of his verrue,& you fhal perceivethem fenlibly to move, and as it were, to incite each other to mutual em- bracement; fo that at the contrary poles unto one another, they will meet and unite themfelves; which is an argument , that dilTevered fpirits, of an identity of nature,do fympathetically operate and ad one upon the otnec, ac a diitancc.
• • .. rDemonfiratioK from the fame, »
In the like manner, if we fhall place apiece oflronin one little boat, and iG'ilbdib.i.c.^, Load-ftoneinanother, you will find, that thelron will haften with rhe like cele- rity unto theLoad-Ilone, beingalfo in his fmall barck; for you fhall perceive, that each of them will be carried unto ihe other , and will the one [Hck and adhere unto iheotherin the mid-way ; and after that the deiire of each of them is accom- pliflied, thatis, aftercoition and union, they will ftandftill, and rell in their confents.
5 Demonjiration, t Problem,
One vein of Iron being rightly difpofed, will draw unto it arother if the vein --.,,., be rich, and of the colour of iron. As for example, put one peece of the vein in ' * *■** his little cup, or fmall boat or birk, as is faid before of the Load-ftone , and hold in your hand another pieceofthe fame Mine, fomewhat near the other, and you fhall find the other in his bark to move unto it , but nothing fo fwiftly as will the Iron unto the LoadHone.
2 Preblem,
You fhall find it alfo for a moft true experiment, that if Iron be taken nakedly of GilbMb. i.t.if it fell J that is, not being excited by the Load-ftone, or any thing elfe , it will draw another Iron unto it, though not fofwiftly as the Load rtone,thatis vigorou"; Atryallismadethus. Makeapieceof cork round, and as big as a hazel-nut, and pierce it through the center with a reafonable big piece of wier , till the middle of the iron be in thecenter of the corck:putit into a quiet watertofwimin, and ap- ply it unto its other end very near; but io^ that it toucheth it nor , the end of ano- ther piece of wicr; and you fhall fee, that the piece you hold in your hind fh.ill draw the orher in the cork , fo that as you move the one , the other fhall flowly follow. And this muft be effe£tedby the application offuch of their ends, as fliall agree in their pole. TheDemonftrationis tnis:
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application.
By thefe examples therefore it is made evident , how the two fpirits of like dif- pofition, or rather of one identity of nature , are apt and proneby a naturall incli-
ration
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nation to eovet and embrace their like 5 andthat at adiftance, or fpace between each body , and confequertly , that it is not the bodies that aileth. For they are divided and difhnt from one another ; but theformallfpirits, which by an aftrall emanation dofympathetically and lovingly , firlt afpe(3: one another , and then by an equall attradtion, do, as it were, kifs and hug together. And therefore it cannot feetn (trange or impoffible unto wife men, that t he bloody fp irits in the oyncment , and thofe in the wounded perfon, fliould at a far diltance meet and apply together, by afympatheticall afped, being that they are but one continued and indivifible quinteffentiall fpirit, though altered in elementary property, even as the northern aire is by the n orrhwindmade todiffer from the fouth, though all is but one effen- tiall and indivifible aire.
Touching the laH branch of this Member , it argueth , that fpirits may be, nay are imbibed by the weapon that woundeth , which by this axiom of Pa'-acelfw , makech the pKiceof the weapon which woundeth amagnet, ormagneticall. The Problem is this. • . •
3. Problem,
Every Body, after that it haih imbibed the Mummy, which ilTueth from man, is forthwith made a Magnet unto him.
And this is proved Magnetically by this Pioblem.
4. Problem.
Piric(]f. Inc. Iron incited or touched by the Load-done at the Pole, doth draw unto him the