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Of things particularly ſpoken thereof evidently or probably true. Of things gene- y 7 leeved , or particularly delivered, manifeſtly or probably jars h the firf# of the CMagneticall vertae "of the earth , of the fomre motions of the ſtone, that 1s, its Verticity or dereRion, its Attraftion or Coition, its declination, its

Variation, and alſo of its Antiquity. In the ſecond a reje ion of ſundry opinions and relations thereof, N atwrall, Medicall, Hiftoricall, C Megkeal

Nd firſt we conceive the carth to be a Magneticall body. A Mag- netical body,we termnot only that which hath a power atrraRtive, but that which ſeated in a convenient medium naturally diſpoſerh it

' ſelf toone invariable and fixed ficuation. And ſuch aMagnetical vertue we conceive to be in the Globe of the earth; whereby as unto ics natu- rall points and proper terms it diſpoſeth it ſelf unto the poles, being ſo framed,conſtiruted & ordered unto theſe points,that thoſe parts which are now at the poles, would not naturally abide under the Aquator,nor Green-land remain in the place of Magellanica; and if the whole earth were violently removed , yet would it not forgoe its primirive points, nor pitch in the Eft or Weſt, but return unto its polary poſirion again. For though by compaQeſle or gravi'y it may acquire the loweft place, and become the center of the univerſe, yer that it makes good that point, not varying at all by the accefſionof bodyes upon, or ſe- ceſſion thereof, from its ſurface perturbing the cqulliianica of cicher Hemiſpheare (whereby the altitude of the ſtarres might vary) or that ie ſtritly maintaines the north and ſoutherne points, that neither upon the motions of the heavens, ayre and winds withour, large eruptions ind divifionof parts within, its polar paits ſhould never incline or vecre

cannot ſo well be ſalved from gravity as a magneticall verticity. This is probably that foundation the wiſdome of the Creator hath laid unto the carth,and in this ſenſe we may more nearly apprehend,and ſenſibly make out the expreſſions of holy Scripture, as that of Pſ.93.1. Firme-

| wit orbem terre qui non commovebitur , he hath made the round world | ſoſure that it cannot be moved : as when it is ſaid by Job, Extends 4- | quilonem ſaper vacuo, &rc, Hee ſtretcheth forth the North upon the | empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing. And this is the moſt

| foundations of the carth faſtened , or who laid the corner ſtone there-

of 2 Had they been acquainted with this principle, Anaxagoras, So- crates and Democritus had better made our the ground of this ſtabili- ry : Xenophanes had not been faine to ſay it had no botrome,, and

| hales Milefius to make it-{wim in water. Now whether the carth ſtand ſtill , or moveth circularly , we may concede this Magneticall

ſtability : For although it move, in that converſion the poles and cen- ter may ſtill remaine the ſame, as is conceived in the Magneticall bo- dies of heaven, eſpecially Jupiter and the Sunne z which according to Galileus, Kepler, and Fabricius, are obſerved to have Dineticall moti- ons and certaine revolutions about their proper centers z and though theone in abour the ſpace of ten dayes, the other in lefſethen one, ac- compliſhthis revolution, yet do they obſerve a conſtant habirudeunto their poles and firme themſelves thereon intheir gyration.

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Nor is the vigour of this great body included only in is {elfe;or cir- cumferenced by its ſurface , but diffuſed at indererminate'Giftances through the ayre , water and bodyes circumjacent , exciting and im- pregnating magneticall bodyes within it ſurface or without it,and per-

untothe Aquator (whereby the latirude of places ſhould alſo vary) it |

forming in a ſecret and invifible way what we evidently behold effe- Qed by the Loadſtone. For theſe effluxions penerrate all bodyes, and like the ſpecics of viſible objeRts are ever ready inthe mediun, and lay hold on all bodyes proportionate or capable of their ations thole bo- dyes likewiſe being of a congenerous nature doe readily receive the impreſſions of their motor z and if not fettered by their gravity , con- ferme themſelves to fituations,wherein they beſt unite unto their Ani- mator. And this will ſufficiently appeare from the obſervations that areto follow, which can no better way bee made out then this wee ſpeake of the magneticall vigour of the carth. Now whether theſe et- | Auviums do flye by ſtreated Aromes and winding particles a3 Renatav des Certes conceaveth, or glide by ſtreames attraed from either pole ' and hemiſpheare of the earth unto the Aquator, as Sir Kenelme Dig- | by excellently declarcth, it takes not away this vertue of the but more diſtinRly ſets downe the geſts and progrefle thereof, and arc corceits of eminent uſe to ſalve magneticall phenomena's. And as in Aſtronomy thoſe hypotheſes though never ſo ſtrange are beſt cſtee- med which beſt do ſalve apparencies, ſo ſurely in Philoſophy thoſe principles(though ſeeming monſtrous may with advantage be embra- ced; which beſt confirme experiment , and afford the readieſt reaſon of obſervation, And truly the dorine of effluxions, their penetrating natures, their inviſible -- by and inſuſpeRed effeRs, are very confide- rable; for beſides this magneticall one of the earth, ſeverall effuſions there may be from divers other bodies, which invifibly aRtheir parts at any time, and perhaps t h any medium, a part of Philoſophy but yer in diſcovery, and will I feare provethe laſt leafe to be turned: over inthe w_ of Nature. fy by | Firſt, therefore it is evidently true and confirmable by every experi- ment, that ſteele and good Iron never excited by the Loadſtone, diſ- cover in themſelves a verticity ; that is, a direQive or polary faculty,

ſralize at another; & this is ſtible in and thin plates of ſteel perforated in the middle and equilibrated, or by ancafter way in long | wires equiponderate with untwiſted filke and ſoft wax , for in this manner pendulous they will conforme themſelves Mcridionally, di- reing one extreame unto the North , another to the South, The ſame is alſo manifeſt in teele wires thruſt through lictle ſpheres or

| globes of Corke and floated on the water, or in naked needles gently lct fall thereon, for ſo diſpoſed they will not reſt untill they have found out the Meridian, and as necre as they can lye pargllell unto the axis of the carth : Sometimes the eye, ſometimes the point Northward indi- vers Needles, but the ſame point alwayes in moſt, conforming them- ſelves unto the wholecarth, m the ſame manner as they doe unto | Loadſtone ; A LOTTAE IE ER:— | W

Book 2. and ( ommon Errors, | will convert into a parallel poſition thereto, for inthis ſituation ic can | beſt receive its verticity and be excited proportionably at both ex- | tremes : now this direction proceeds not primitively from themlelves, | but is derivative and contracted from the magneticall efluxions of the earth, which they have winded in their hammering and formation, or | elſe by lang continuance in one poſition, as wee ſhall declare here- | after. | Itis likewiſe true what is delivered of Irons heated in the fice, that | they contraRt a verticity in their refrigeration ; for heated red hot and | cooled in the meridian from North to South, they preſently contraR a | polary power, and being poyſed in ayre or water convert that part unto the North which reſpeRed that point in its refrigeration; ſo that if they had no ſenſible verticity before it may be acquired by this way , or if they had any, it might be exchanged by contrary poſition in the coo- ling : for by the fire they omit not onely many droflie and ſcorious parts, but whatſoever they had received cither from the earth or load- ſtone,and ſo being naked and deſpoiled of all verticity,the magneticall | Atomes invade their bodies with more effeR and agiliry. | Neither is it onely true what Gilberrus firſt obſerved, that Irons re- frigerated North and South acquire a DireRive faculcy, but if they be- cooled upright and perperdicularly they will alſo obtaine che ſame

| that part which is cooled toward the North on this fide the Aquator,

convertipg it ſelfe unto the North, and attraQting the South point'of the Needle : the other and higheſt extremereſpeRing the South , and

attraQing the Northerne according unto the Laws Magneticall : for| | (what muſt be obſerved) contrary poles or faces attraR cach other , as

' the North the South, and the like decline cach other,as the North the

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North. Now on this fide of the A&quator, that extreme which is next

the earth is animated unto the Nortn,and the contrary unto the South,

{orhat in Coition it applyes it ſelfe quite oppoſitely, the coition or at-

tration being contrary tothe verticity or DireRtion. Contrary if wee

ſpeake according unto common ule, yer alike if we conceave the virtue

of the North pole to diffuſe is ſelf and open at the South,and the Souch

This polarity Iron refrigeration upon extremity and in defeR of a Loadſtone might ſerve to invigorate and touch a needle any where ; and this, allowing variation, is alſo the trueſt way at any ſeaſon to dil. cover the North or South and ſurely farre more certaine then what is afhcmed of the graines and circles in trees, or the figure in the roote of Ferne. Forif we cre a red hot wire untill it coole, then hang it u with wax and untwiſted ſilke , where the lower end and that whic cooled next the earth doth reſt, that is the Northerne point z and this we affirme will ſtill be true, whether it be cooled inthe ayre orcxtin- guiſhed in water,oyle of vitrioll, Aqua fortis, or Quickſilver. And this

is alſo evidenced in culinary-utenfils and Irons that often feele the force of fire, as tongs, fireſhovels, prongs and Andirons , all which acquire a magneticall and polary condition, and being ſuſpended,convert their lower extremes unto the North, with the ſame attraRting the Southerne point of the Needle, For cafier experiment if wee place a Needle tou-

| ched atthe foote of tongues or andirons, it will obvert or turne aſide

its lyllie or North point,and conforme its cuſpis or South extreme un- tothe andiron, The like verticity though more obſcurely is alſo con- traced by brickes and tiles, as wee have made triall in ſome taken out ofthe backs of chimneys. Now to contrat this DireRian,there needs not a totall ignition, nor is it neceſſary the Irons ſhould bee red hot all over. For if a wire be heated onely at one end, according as thet end is cooled upward or downeward, it reſpeQively acquires a verticity , as wehave declared before in wires totally candent. Nor is it abſolutely requiſitethey ſhould be exaRtly cooled perpendicularly, or ſtridly lye inthe meridian, for whether they be refrigerated inclinatorily or ſome- what Xquinoxially, that is toward the Eiſterne or Welterne points chough in a leſſer degree, they diſcover ſome verticity.

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Nor is this onely true in Irons but inthe Loadftone it ſelfe ; for if a Loadſtone be made red hot inthe fire it amits the magneticall vigour ic had before in it ſelfe, and acquires another from the earth in its refri- gerationy for that part which cooleth towardthe carth will acquire the reſpeR of the North, and attraR the Southerne point or cuſpis of the Need!c. The experiment hereof we made ina Loadſtone of a parallel- logram or long ſquare figure, whercin only inverting the extremes as it came out of the fire , wee altered the poles or faces thereof at pleaſure.

It is alſo true what is delivered of the DireRtion and coition of Irons that they contraR a verticity by long and continued poſition , that is, not onely being placed from North to South, and lying in the meridi- an, but reſpeRing the Zenith and perpendicular unto the center of the earth, as is moſt manifeſt in barres of windowes, caſements , hindges and the like, for if we preſent the Needle unto their lower extremes, it wheeles about it and turnes its Southerne pointunto them. The ſame condition in long time doe bricks contract which are placed in walls, and therefore it may be a fallible way to finde out the meridian by pla- cing the Needle ona wall for ſome bricks therein which by a long and continued poſition, are often magnetically enabled to diſtract the po- larity of the Needle.

Laſtly , Irons doe manifeſt a verticity not only upon refrigeration and conſtant ſituation, but(what is wonderfull and advanceth the mag- neticall hypotheſis) they cvidence the ſame by meer poſition accor- ding as they are itverted and their extreams diſpoſed reſpeRively un- tothe earth. For ifan iron or ſtecle not formerly excited, be held per-

|pendicularly or ioclinatorily uato the needle, the lower end thereof will attra the c»/& or ſoutherne point; but if the ſame extream be in- verted and he!d under the needle, & will then attra@ the lilly or nog- therne point;for by inverſion it changerh its direRion acquired before, and receiveth a new and ſoutherne polarity from the carth as being the upper extreame. Now if an iron be touched before, it varycth not in | this manner, for then ir admits not this magneticall impreſſion, as being |

reaRion. | : And trom theſe grounds may we beſt determine why the Northern pole of the Loadſtone attraQeth a greater weight then the Southerne | onthis fide the Equator , why the ſtone is beſt preſerved ina naturall and polary ſituation; and why as Gilbertus obſcrveth, it reſpeReth chat | pole out of the carth which it regarded in its minercall bed and ſubter. rancous poſition. = It is likewiſe true and wonderfull what is delivered of the Inclina- tion or Declination of the Loadſtone; that is, the deſcent of the needle below the plaine of the Horizon : for long needles which

Q- rouſly excited , incline and bend downeward , depreſling the Noh extreame below the Horizon z that is the Notth on this, the South on the other fide of the Equator, and at the very Lyne or middle | circle of the Earth ſtand parallell, and deficeth neither. And | this is evidenced notonly from obſervations of the needle in ſeve- rall parts of the earth, but ſundry experiments in any part thereof, as in

rs - dhe ballanced inthe ayre.; for excited by a vigorous LoadſtofleKwill tomewhart depreſle its anima- tredextreme, and intereſt the horizontall circumference. It is alſo-ma- nifeſt ina ncedle pierced through a globe of Cork ſocut away and pa- red by degrees that it will ſwim under water, yet finke not unto the bottome, which may be well effected ; for if the corke bee a thought coo light to finke under the ſurface , the body of the water may be at- tenuated with ſpirits of wine if too heavy, it may be incraſſated with ſalt and if by chance too nauch be added,it may againe be thinned by a proportionable addition of freih water : if then the needle be taken out, aRively touched and put iD againe, it will deprefle and bow down its northerne head toward the bottome , and advance its ſoutherne ex- tremity toward the brim. This way invented by Gilbertus may feem of difficulty z the ſame with leflc labour may be obſerved in a needlcd ſphere of corke equally contiguous unto the ſurface of the watergfor if the needle be notexaRly equiponderant , that end which is a thaughe t00 light, if touched becommeth cven, that needle alſo which will but juſt ſwim under water if forcibly touched will ſinke deeper,and ſome-

ed by atouch from the contrary pole,that end which before was eleva- red will then decline; & this perhaps might be obſerved in ſome ſcales exaQly ballanced,2nd in ſuch needles which for their bulke can hardly be ſupported by the water. For if they be powerfully excited 8&equally let fall, they commonly fink down and break the water at that extream wherat they were { jonally excited, & by this way it is conceived there may be ſome fraud inthe weighing of precious commodities,and ſuch as carry a value in quarter grains,by placing a powerfull Loadſtone above or below,according as we intend to depres or elevateone extrem.

Now if theſe magneticallemiſhons bee only qualities, and che gra- vity of bqdyes incline them only unto the carth;ſurely that which mo- veth other bodyes to deſcent carryeth not the ſtroak in this, but rather the magneticall alliciency of the carth, unto which alacrity it applyeth it ſelfe, and inthe very ſame way unto the whole earth, as it doth unto a fiogle Loadſtone : for if an untouched needle be at a diſtance ſuſpen- ded over a Loadftone , it will not hang parallel , but decline at the north extreme,and at that part will firſt ſalute its Diceor. Again,what is alſo wonderfull, this inclination is not invariable, for as it is obſcr- ved juſt under the line the needle lyeth paralle] withthe Horizon, but ſayling north or ſouth it beginneth to incline, and increaſeth according as it approacheth unto either pole , and would at laſt endeavour to c- rec it ſelfe;and this is no more then what it doth upon the Loadſtone, and that more plainly vponthe Terrellaor ſphericall magnet geogra- phically ſer out with circles of the Globe. For at the Aquatar there- of the needle will ſtand reangularly, but approaching northward to- ward the tropick it will regard the ſtone obliquely; 8 when it attaineth the pole dire&ly,and if its bulk be no impediment, crc it ſclfand ſtand perpendicularly thereon, And therefore upon ſti obſervation of this :nclination in ſeverall latitudes & due records preferved,inſtruments are made whereby without the help of Sun or Star,the latitude of the place may be diſcovered;and yet it appears the obſervations of men have not as yet been ſo juſt 8 equallas is deſirable,for of thoſe tables of declina- tion which I have peruſcd,there are net any two that punQually agree, chough ſom have been thoght exalycalculated,eſpecially that which Ridley received fro Mr. Bries in our time GeometryProfeſlor in Oxford.

Ic is alſo probable whar is delivered concerning the variation of the compaſle that is the cauſe and ground thereof, for the manner as being confirmed by obſervation we ſhall not atall diſpute. The variation of the compaſle is an Arch of the Horizon intercepted between the true and magneticall meridian, or more plainly,a deflexion and ſiding Eaſt and Weſt fromthe true meridian. The true meridian is a major circle paſſing through the poles of the world, and the Zenith or Vertex of a- ny place, exaQly dividing the Eaſt from the Weſt. Now on this lyne

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the needle exaAtly lycth not , but diverts and yaricth its point, that is the

the North point on this fide the Aquator,the South'onthe other, ſom- ne NO PSTs ſometime towed the Welt, and in fome fer ces yarieth not t all. Firſt,therfore it is obſerved that betwixtthe ſhore of Ireland, France, Spaine, Guinie and the Azores , the North poine varieth toward the Eaſt, and that in ſome variety; at London it varieth nine, at Rome but five , at ſome parts of the Azores it defleReth nor, but lyeth in the true meridian.onthe other fide of the Azores y and this ſide the Equator the north point of the needle wheelcth tothe Weſt , ſothat inche latitude of 36. nearethe ſhore, the variation is about eleven degrees but oathe other fide the Equator,it is quite otherwiſe: for about Frio in Brafilia,the ſouth varicth twelve degrees unto the Weft , and about the mouth of the Straites of Magellan five or fix 5 but elongating from the coaſt of Braſilia toward the ſhore of Africa it varyeth Eaſtward, and ariving at Capo de las Agullas, ic reſteth in the Meridian, and looketh nei

" Now the cauſe of this variation may bethe inequalitie of the earth, vatiouſly diſpoſed , and differently intermixed with the Sea : withal! the different diſpolure of its magneticall vigor in the eminencies and ſtronger parts thereof, for the needle endeavours to con- forme unto the Mcridian, but being diſtraQed driveth that way where

the greater & moſt powertuller part of the earth is placed, which may

ceived by any that underſtands the generalities of » For whereas on this fide the Meridian, or the Iſles of Azores, where the | firſt Meridian is placed,the needle varieth Eaſtward, it may bee occ+- fioned by that vaſt TraR of eatth, that is, —_— Afia, and Africa, ſcated toward the Eaſt,and diſpoting the needle that way: For arriving CANS the Azores, or Iſlands of Saint Michaels, which have a middle ion betweene theſe continents, and that vaſt and almoſt anſwerable TraR of America, it ſcemeth equally diſtracted by both, and diverting unto neither, doth parallel) and placeir ſelf upon the true Meridian, But fayling farther it veers its Lilly tothe Weft , and re- | land is nearer or greater ; and inthe laticude as it the ſhoare augmenteth ics variation. ——_— oa wr ores nr re ps co ica, variation , havi paſſed morethen halfe the way , es pas wes once C——_ foretold therelay a vaſt and mighty continent toward the Weſt. The reaſon I confeſle, and inference is good , but the inſtance perhaps not ſo. For Columbus knew not the variation of the compaſſe , whereof Sebaſtian Cabot firſt took notice, who after

be illuſtrated from what hath been delivered before, and may be con- |

ch fide tartheſt diftant,that is Jamaica,Cuba, and the Iſles inthe Bay of Mcxico. And from this variation do ſome new diſcoverers deduce 2 probability in the atrempts of the Northerne paſſage toward the Indies.

Now becauſe where the greater continents are joyned , the aRion| | and efluenceis alſo greater, therefore thoſe needles do ſuffer the grea-| * reft variation which are in Countreys which moſt do feel that Action, | | And therefore hath Rome far lefle variation then London; for on the

Weſt ſide of Rome, are ſeated the great continents of France, Spaine, Germany,which take of the exuperance and in ſome way ballance the vigour of the Eaſtern parts; but anto England there is almoſt no cath Weſt, but the whole extent of Europe and Aſia, lyeth Exſtward, and therfore at London it varieth eleven dgerces,that is almoſt one Rhemb, Thus alſo by reaſon of the great continent of Braſilia, Peru, and| | | Chili, the needle defleReth toward the land twelve degrees; bur at the | *' ſtrairs of Magellan where the land is narrowed , and the Seaon the| *' other fide,it varycth but five or ſix. And ſo likewiſe, becauſe the Cape dc las Agullas hath Sea on both ſides nearit,and other land remote and | as it were #quidiftant from it, therefore at that point the needle con- forms unto the true Meridian, and is not diſtraR bythe vicinity of Ad-| | jacencyes. And this is the generall and great cauſe of variation. But if in certaine creekes and valleys the e prove irregular, and vary beyond expeRance, it may be imputed unto ſome vigorous part of the| + carth , or Magneticall eminence not far diſtant. And this was the in-| + vention of D* Gilbert not many yeores paſt , a Phyftion in London, | And therefore although ſome affume the invention of its direRion,and

others have had the glory of the Carde, yet in the experiments, grounds,and cauſes thereof , England produced the Father Philoſo- pher, and diſcovered more init, then Columbus or Americus did | ever by it. | It 1s alſo probable what is conceived of its Antiquity , that the | |

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knowledge of its polary power and direQion unto the North was un- knowne unto the Ancients, and though Levinus Lemnius, and Czlius Calcagninus,are of another beliefe , 1s juſtly placed with new inventi- ors by Pancirollus, for their Achilles and ftrongeſt argument is an ex- preſſion in Plautus, a very ancient Author,and conteraporary unto En- nius. Hic vents jam ſecunduc oft cape made verſoriam. Now this verſe- riamthey conſtrue to be the compaſſe, which notwithſtanding accord- ing unto Pineda, who hath diſcufſed the point, Turnebus, Cabeus.8 di. | vers others, is better interpreted the ropethat helps to turne the ſhip;or as we ſay, doth make it tack about, the Compaſle, declaring rather the ſhip is turned, then conferring unto its converſion. As for the long expeditions 8 ſundry voiages of elder times,which might confirmthe | | antiquity of this invention, it is not improbable they were —_

Book 2. and ('ommon Errors. by the helpe of ftarres;and ſo might the Phzaicean navigators,and alſo Vlyſſes ſaile about the Mediterranean, by the flight of birds, or keep- ing near the ſhore, and ſo might Hanno coaſt about Africa, or by the helpe of oares as is expreſſed in the yoyage of Jonah. And whereas it is contended that this verticity was not unknowne unto Salomon , in whom is preſumed a univerſality of knowledge, it will as forcibly fol- low he knew the Arte of Typography, powder and gunnes, or had the Philoſophers ſtone, yet ſent unto Ophir for gold. Ir is not to be deny- ed, that befide his politicall wiſdome z his knowledge in Philoſophic was very large, and perhaps from his workes therein, the ancient Phi- loſophers eſpecially Ariſtotle , who had the aſſiſtance of Alexanders acquirements, collected great obſervables, yet if he knew the uſe of the Compaſle, his ſhips were ſurely very flow , that made a three yeares voyape from Eziongeber in the red Sea unto Ophir , which is upp {cd to be Taprobana or Malaca inthe Indies, not many moneths ſayle,

and fince inthe ſame or leſſer time , Drake and Candiſh performed |

And as the knowledge of its verticity is not ſo old as ſome con- ceive, ſo is it more ancient then moſt beleeve ; nor had its diſcovery with gunnes, printing,or as many thinke, ſome yeers before the diſco- very of America ;, for it was not unknowne unto Petrus Peregrinus 3

| French man , who two hundred yeeres fince bath left a TraR of the

Magnet 8 a perpetual motion to be made thereby preſerved by Gafle- rus. Paulus Venetus and about five hundred yeers paſt, Albertus Mag- nus, mzke mention hereof, and quoteth for it a book of Ariſtotle de /«-

pide, which book although we ftnd in the Catalogue of Lacrtius, yet |

with Cabeus I rather judge it to be the work of ſome Arabick writer, not many years before the dayes of Albertus.

Laſtly, It is likewiſe true what ſome have delivered of Crocus mmar- 31, that 1s, ſteele corroded with vineger, ſulphur, or otherwiſe,and af- fer reverberated by fire. For the Loadftone will not at all atrra& it, nor will it adhere, bur lye therein like ſand. This is to be underſtood of Crocus martis well reverberated, and intoa violet colour : for common chalybs prepararas, or corroded and powdered ſteele, the Loadſtone attracts like ordinary filings of iron,and many times moſt of thatwhich paſſeth for Crocus warts. So that this way may ſerve as.a teſt of its preparation,after which it becommeth a very good medicine in fluxes. The like may be affirmed of Flakes of iron that are ruſty and begin to tend unto earth; for their cognation then cxpireth, and the Loadſtone will not regard them,

| diaweth fron,and yet herein we ſhould not want experiment and great authority. The words of Renatns des Cares in his principles of Phi- | loſophy are very plain. Preterea magnes trahet ferrum, five potius m1g-

fourth, it has to be livestream clips that are the intellectual equivalent of the guy playing the mobile ad, where they always pause immediately after hearing something that they can’t perfectly digest, and then go “WHAT??? IS SHE REALLY SAYING WHAT I THINK SHE IS?? CHAT OH MY GOD…” and then they continue the video after about 4-6 minutes and it doesn’t say the thing that they thought it would and the video agrees with them so they need to draw some further pointless distinction. hypocrisy is my heroin.

| dies;defining Magneticall attraRion to be a naturall incitation and dil. | poſition conforming unto contiguitie , an union of one Magneticall

| ger. And this is alſo the doctrine of Gilbertus, by whom this mo-

' vigours, and alſo of their bodies, if bulke or impediment prevent not, | and therefore thoſe contrary aRions which flow from oppoſite poles

| faſtened inthe fide of a bowle or baſon of water , a Loadſtone {wim-

Concerning the Loaditone, therein of ſundry common opinions, and received relats- ons, Naturall, Hifforicall, Medaicall, Magical,

7, hr firſt not onely a ſimple Hetorodox,but a very hard Parodox, it will {ſceme, and of great abſurdity unto obſtinate cares, if wee {ay attraQion is unjuſtly appropriated umio theLoadſtone,and that per- haps we ſpeake not properly , when wee {ay vulgarly the Loadſtone

nes & ferrum ad invicem acceduwm , neque enim ulla ibi tr attio eſt , The {ame is ſolemnly determined by Cabius. Nec magnes trah1it proprie fer-

rum, nec ferrum ad ſe magnetems provocat, ſed ambo parti conatu ad invi- |

cem confluunt. Concordant hereto is the aflertion of Door Ridley, Phyſinon unto the Emperour of Ruſſia in his TraRt of Mgnetical bo body wich an other, and no violenc haling of the weak unto the ſtron-

t10n is termed coition , and that not made by any faculty atrraRive of one, but a Syndrome and concourle of each z acoition alway of their

fifth, you already know i’m obsessed with anyone who’s a gatekeeper and feels terrified that someone else will come along and do that thing they’ve invested themselves in poorly and none of the slugs will tell the difference. it’s especially great in a video about how thorn doesn’t get nietszche. “i should just fuckin do pop philosophy i wonder if i could trick [myself] and end up doing it cynically, but i think i’d end up being depressed because if it worked i’d end up having to just…” i can’t get enough.

or faces, are not ſo properly expulſion and attragion, as Sequela and Fuga a mutuall fight and following. | The ſame is alſoconfirmed by experiment; for if a piece of iron be

ming freely ina boat of cork, will preſently make untoit. And fo if a ſtcele or knite untouched be offered toward the needle that is touched, the needle nimbly moveth toward it, and conformeth unto union with |

| the ſteelethat moveth not. Againe, If a Loadſtone be fi 1ely filed, the |

| atoms or duſt thereof will adheare unto iron that was never touched, |

even a5 the powder of iron doth alſo unto the Loadſtone. And laftly, | It in two skiphs of cork, a Loadſtone and ſteele be placed within the orbe of their aRivities, the one doth not move, the other ſtanding ſtil], but both hoiſe ſayle and ſteere unto each other; ſo that if the Loadſtone attraR, the ſteele hath alſo irs attraRionzfor in this aRion the Allicier- Cy is reciprocall, which joyntly felt, they mutually approach and run into each others armes.

And therefore ſurely more moderate expreſſions become this action , then what the Ancients have uſed , which ſome have de- livered in the moſt violent termes of their language, ſo Auſtine cals it, M:irabilem

Mirabilew ferri raprrem: Hippocrates, 30+ in © oidneyr agniay, Lopes wi ferrum rapit. Galen diſputing againſt Epicurus uſcth the terme | nll but that is alſo too violent: among the Ancients Ariſtotle ſpake moſt warily, 244- ins + oidnezy 19, Lapts qui ferrum moves : and in ' ſome tollerable acception do runne the expretſions of Aquinas, Scali- | ger and Cuſanus. | Many relations are made, and great expeRations are raiſed from | the Magnes Carneus, or a Loadſtone, that hath a faculty to artraR not |

onely Iron but fleſh; butthis nponenquiry, and as Cabeus hath alſo | obſerved , is nothing elſe but a weake an inanimate kinde of Load- | ſtone, veyned here and there with a few magneticall and ferreous

lines, bur chiefly conſiſting of a bolary and clammy ſubſtance, where- |

by it adheres like Hzmatites,or Terra Lemnia,unto the Lipps,and this isthat ftone which is to be underſtood, when Phyſitions joyn it with Ftites or the Eagle ſtore, and promile therein a vertue againſt abor- tion, There is ſometime a miſtake concerning the variation of the com: | paſſe, and therein one point is taken for another, For beyond the Aqua- | ror ſome men account its variation by the diverſion of the Northerne point, whereas beyond that circle the Southerne point is ſoveraigne, and the North ſubmits his preheminency. For inthe Southerne coaſt eitherof America or Africa, the Southerne point defli:Rts and varieth toward the land, as beivg diſpoſed and ſpirited that way by the meri- dionall and proper Hemiſphere. And therefore on that fide of the

i could go on. this is not ironic. in the past i’ve felt embarassed about it, but i truly love being a cringelord now. i genuinely wish all parties involved, the creators and the audiences, the best. so badly i want n-flowers to bloom.

earth the varying point is beſt accounted by the South. And therefore

Jlſothe writings of fome,and Maps of others, arc to be enquired, that make the needle decline unto the Eaſt twelve degrees at Capo Feio, and fixe at the ſtraits of Magellan, accounting hereby one point for another, and preferring the North in the liberties and province of the South. But certainely falſe if is what is commonly affirmed and belceved, that Garlick doth hinder the attraRion of the Loadſtone; which is not- withſtanding delivered by grave and worthy Writers, by Pliny, Soli- nus, Ptolomy, Plutarch, Albertus, Mathiolus, Rucus, Langius, and many more. AneffeR as ſtrange as that of Homers Moly, and the Garlick the gods beſtowed upon Ulyſſes. But that it is evidently falſe, many experiments declare. For an Iron wire heated red hot and quenched inthe juyce of Garlick, doth notwithſtanding contra a verticity from the carth, ahd attrateth the Southerne point of the Needle. Ifalſothe tooth af a Loadſtone be covered or ſtuck in Gar- lik, it will notwithſtanding attraR and animate any Needles excited and fixed in Garlick untill « intoruſt, doe yet retaine their at- traive and polary reſpes.

ancient and moderne , that an Adamant or Diamond prevents or fu- ſpends the attrationof che Load(tone, as is in open termes delivered by Pliny. Adam as diffidet cum Magnete Lapide ut juxia poſutues ferr is non patiatur abſftirahi, aut fi admetrs magnes epprehenderit, rapuat atque aafe- rat. For it a Diamond be placed betweene a needle and a Loadſtone, there will nevertheleſlſe enſue a Coition even over the body of the Di- amond : and ancafie marter it is to touch or excite a needle through a Diamond, by placing it atthe cooth of a Loadſtone, and therefore the relation is falſe, or oureſtimation of theſe gems untrue z nor are they Diamonds which carry that name amongſt us.

It is not ſuddenly to be received what Paracelſus in his booke De ge- ner atione reruw affirmeth, that if a Loadſtone be annoimed with Mer- curiall oyle, or onely put into Quickſilver, it omitteth ics atrraRion for ever. For we have found that Loadſtones and touched needles which have laid long time in Quickſilver have not amirted their attraion , and we alſo finde that red hot needles or wites extinguiſhed in quick- liver, do yetacquire a verticity according tothe Laws of poſicion in extinion, Of greater repugnancy unto reaſon is that which he deli- vers concerning its graduation, that heated in fire & often extinguiſhed in oyle of Mars or Iron, it acquires an ability to extra or draw forth a naile faſtened in a wall ; for, as we have declared before, the vigor of the Loadſtone is deſtroyed by fire , nor will it be reimpregnated by any other Magnete then the carth.

True it is, and we ſhall not deny, that beſides fire ſome other wayes there are of its deſtruRion, as Age, Ruſte, and what is leaſt dreamt on 20 unnaturall or contrary ſituation ; for being impolarily adjoyned un- to a more vigorous Loadſtone,it will in a ſhort time exchange it poles, or being kept in undue poſition, that is , not lying on the mctridian or with its pales inverted , it receaves in longer time impaite in aRiviry exchange of faces, and is more powerfully preſerved by ſite then by the duſt of ſtecle. But the ſudden and ſureſt way is fire, as we have dc- clared before: that is, fire not onely actuall but potcariall; the one ſurely and ſuddenly, the other ſlowly and imperfectly; the one chan- ivg, the other deſtroying the figure. For if diſtilled Vinegar or Aqua- attis be powred upon the powder of Loadſtone, the {ubliding pow- der dryed, retaines ſome magneticall vertue, and will be attrated by the Loadſtone: but if the menſtruum or diſlolvent be evaporated to a conGſtence, and afterward doth ſhoote into Icycles or cryſtalls, the Loadſtone hath no power upon them, and if in a full diflolution of ſteele a ſeparation ot parts be made by precipitation or exhalation , the exſiccated powder hath loſt its wings and aſcends not unto the Load- ſtone. And though a Loadſtone fired do preſently omit its proper ver- tue, and according to the poſition in cooling contracts a new verticity from the carth, yet ifthe ſame be laid a while in Aqua fortis or other

corrolive water, and taken out before a conſiderable corrofion , it ſtill reſerves its attraion, and will convert the Needle according to for. mer polarty- | [RE Ir is improbable what Pliny affirmeth concerning the objec of its attraRioo,that ic artraQts nor only ferrous bodies, but alſo /iquerers v1- 1ri, for inthe body of glaffe there is no ferreous or magneticall nature which might occafion attraion. For of the glafle we uſe, the pureſt is made of the fineſt ſand and the aſhes of Chali or Glafleworte, and the courſer or ſort of the aſhes of brake or other plants. Befide, vi- rrification is the Iaft or urmoſt fuſton of a body vitrifiable, and is per- formed by a ſtrong and violent fire, which keepsthe melted glaſſe red

| hot, Now certaine it is, and we have ſhewed ir before, that the Load-

ſtone will not atrraR even ſtecle ir ſelfe that is candent, much lefle the | incongenerous body of glafſe being fired. For fire deſtroyes the Load- |

can affirme. Ic attrateth che Smyris or Emery in powder , It drawcth | che ſhining or glaſſie powder brought trom the Indies, and im- | plyed in writing duft. There is alſo in Smiths cinders by ſome adbefi- | on of Iron whereby they appeare as it were glazed, ſometime to bee

It isalſo improbable and ſomething ſingular what ſome. conceiv and Fuſebius Nierembergius a late writer and Jeſuir of Spain delivers, that the body of man is magneticall, and being placed ina boxee , the veſſell will never reſt untill the head reſpeteth the North, if this be true, the bodies of Chriſtians doe lye unnaturally in their graves, and the Jews have fallen upon the natural poſition, who in the reverence of

n-flowers and zero-feedback are not about everything being equally valuable, make no mistake. even a liberal could understand the paradox of tolerance - how are property rights maintained?; a libertarian perhaps not. perhaps the slogan should be “make n-flowers bloom” instead of “let n-flowers bloom,” because allowing for a true rotpolitics is an active process, in the same way that nietszche saw forgetting as an active process. this is because if you think of a flower, it starts as a seed, and then it grows into a plant, which produces a flower, but of course this flow from seed -> plant -> flower isn’t a true rotting, because at each step it understands itself as seed and tries to escape in the same way that all seeds or plants do. only when it forgets itself to be a plant, and invests its abundance into a cancerous blight, does it rot.

their Temple, do place their beds from North to South. This opinion

ſtone,and therefore ir declines it in irs owne defence,and ſeckes go uni- | on with it. But that the Magnet attraRerh more then common Iron, we |

found a magneticall operation, for ſome thereof applyed have power to move the Needle. |

confirmed would much advance the microcoſmicall conceite, and commend the Geography of Paracelſus ; who according to the cardi- nall points of the world divideth the body of man, andt WOr- king upon humaneordure . and by long preparation rendring it odife- rous, hetermes it Zibet« Occidemtals, Weſterne Civetz making the facethe Eaſt , but the poſteriorsthe America or Weſteme part of his | microcoſme. The verity or rather falſity hereof, might eaſily be tried in Wales, where there are portable boats, and made of leather, which would convert upon the impulſion of any verticity , and ſeeme to bee the ſame whereot in his deſcription of Brittaine, Czſar hath left ſome mention.

Another kinde of verticity, is that which Angelus doce mibi jus, a- «, Michael Sundevogis, in a Trac de ſalpbwre, diſcovereth in Vege- tables , from ſticks let fall or deprefled under water, which equally framed and permitted unto themſelves, will aſcend at the upper end,or

that which was verticall in its vegetation, wherein notwithſtanding, as yet, we have not found fſatisfaRion; al h perhapstoo greedy of magnallities, we are apt to make but favourable experiments concer- ning welcome truths, and ſuch deſired veritics.

Ic is alſo wondrous ſtrange and untrue what Lzlius Biſciola repor- teth, that if untoten ounces of Loadſtone one of Iron be added, it en- creaſeth not unto eleven, but weighs ten ounces ſtill ? a relation inexcu- ſable in thetitle of his worke, Hore ſabſecive , or leaſurcable howres: the examination being as ready as the relation, and the falſity tryed as cafily as delivered : nor is it to be omitted what is taken up by Czſiug Bernardus a late Mineralogift, and originally confirmed by Porta, that needles touched with a Diamond contra a verticity, even as they doe with a Loadſtone , which will not conſiſt with experimew.', And therefore, as Gilbertus obſerveth, he might be deceived, in touching ſuchgeedles with Diamonds, which had a vetticity before, as we have

decffted moſt needles to have, and ſo had he touched them with gold or filver, he might have concluded a magneticall vertue therein.

In the ſame forme may we place Fracaſtorius his attraction of (il- ver, Philoſtratus his Panturbes, Apollodorus, and Beda his relation of

the Loadſtone that attraRed onely in the night : but moſt inexcuſable is Franciſcus Rueus,a man of our own profeſſion, who in his Diſcourſe of gemmes mentioned in the Apocalyps, undertakes a Chapter of the Loadſtone; wherein ſubſtantially and upon experiment he ſcarce deli- vereth any thing , making enumeration of its traditionall qualities, whereof he ſcemeth to beleeve many, and ſome of thoſe above, convi- Red by experience, he is fain to ſalve as impoſtures of the Devill. But Boetius de Boot Phyſician unto Rodulphus the ſecond , hath recom- penced this defet ; and in his Trac, de lepidibus + gemmy, (peakes very materially hereof, and his diſcourſe is conſonant unco experience and reaſon.

i was a bit upset earlier in the week when the accounts in my internet bubble got mad at contrapoints. i guess i haven’t thought all that much about it but apart from everything in that situation, the strangest thing to me is the desire for her to make a video about palestine. i’m probably terminally contrarian but even if she was a manichean pro-palestinian, (my god yesterday on the majority report someone called in and was like I THINK ALL THE JEWS NEED TO GET KICKED OUT OF ISRAEL like ok bro…) like what would you be getting out of it that you couldn’t get out of chatGPT. the reason why i support n-flowers is because i understand that i want what i don’t want, and algorithms can only even give you what you want, and i don’t want what i want! before i listened to the philosophy slop content, i was listening to a less slop philosophy podcast on wilhelm reich and fascism and besides the quote we all love from it from antioedipus which i assume was why they read him, someone embarassedly brought up a really good point that apparently came from zizek, which is that the desire for fascism today comes from like a horror at feeling like you’re an incel who’s too prudish and doesn’t enjoy enough, so you need daddy trump to tell you “no! it’s good actually that you don’t have sex, being a cishet is good and revolutionary and not lame, you don’t want to have sex with children, believe me, i would know…” in this sense, the moral hypocrisy really is essential to what trump is doing.

As for relations Hiſtoricall, though many there be of leſſe account, yet two alone deſerve conſideration , the firſt concerneth magneticall rockes, and attraRive mountaines in ſeverall parts of the carth. The 0- ther the tombe of Mahomet and bodies ſuſpended in the aire. Of rocks magneticall there are likewiſe two relations; for ſome are delive- red to be inthe Indies, and ſome inthe extremity of the North, and about the very pole; the Northerne account is commonly aſcribed un- to Olaus Magnus Archbiſhop of Upſale, who out of his predeceſſour Joannes, Saxo, and others, compiled a hiſtory of ſome Northerne Na- _ 3 _— aſſertion = _ _ — in that _ of his which p among uy, ecvc his ic herein no mote thenthat in the firſt line of his booke, dries” net that Bi-

| armia (which is not ſeventy degrees in latitude ) bath the pole for its

Now upon this foundation how uncertaine ſoever men have erected mighty illatioos , aſcribing thereto the cauſe of the needles direRion, ns conceiving the efiluxions from theſe mountaines and rockes invite che lilly coward the north; which conceit though countenanced bylear- ned men,is not made out either by experience or reaſon;for no man hath yet attained or given a ſenſible account of the pole by ſome degrees; it is alſo obſerved the needle doth verymuch vary as it approacheth the pole, whereas were there ſuch direion from the rocks, upon a nearer approachment it would more direly reſpeRthem. Beſide were there ſuch magneticall rocks under the pole, yet being ſo far removed they would produce no ſuch cffeR ; fot they that ſaile by the Iſle of Flua

now called Elba inthe Thuſcan ſea whichabounds in veynes of Load- ſtone , gbſcrve no variation or inclination of the needle, much leſſe may they expect a direRion from rocks at the end'of the earth. And laſtly, men that aſcribe thus much unto rocks of the north pre- ſume or diſcover the like magneticalls at the ſouth: For in the {Ml ſeas and far beyond the Aquator, variations are large, and declinations as conſtant as in the northerne Ocean. |

The other relation of Loadſtone,mines,and rocks, in the ſhore of In- dia is delivered of old by Plinie; wherein faith he, they arc ſo placed both in abundance and vigor , that it proves an adyenture of hazard to

paſſe thoſe coaſts in a ſhip with Iron nailes. Serapion the Moore an Au- thor of good eſtceme and reaſonable antiquity, confirmeth the ſame,

| many and of our owne Nation, and might ſurely have been controuled |

whoſe expreſſion inthe word megres in this. The mine of this ſtone is in the Sea coaſt of India,whereto whenShips approach, there is nolron in them which flyes not like a bird unto theſe mountains, and therefore | their Ships are faſtened not with Iron but wood, for otherwiſe they | would bee torne to peeces. But this affertion how poſitive ſoever 1s | contradited by all Navigators that paſſe that way, which are now

by Nearchus the Admirall of Alexander, who not knowing the com- paſſe, was faine to coaſt that ſhore.

| tombe at Medina Talnabi, in Arabia, without any viſible ſupporters

really, the core reason why i think zero feedback is important is because i think the reason why the slop exists is because we both love it and are ashamed at it, and desperately ask artists and journalists and whateverists to make us more slop please. “i know what i want chatGPT, please kick up the 4d3d3d3.”

hangeth in the ayre betweene two Loadſtones artificially contrived both above and below, which conceit is very fabulous, and evidently

falſe from the teſtimony of ocular Teſtators; who affirme his combe is made of ſtone and lyeth upon the ground as beſides others, the lear- | ned Voſſus obſerveth fromGabriel Sionita, & Joannes Heſronita, two | Maronites intheir relations hereof. Of ſuch intentions and attempt by | Mahometans we read in ſome relators, and that might be the occafion- of the fable; which by tradition of time and diſtance of place enlarged | into the ſtory of being accampliſhed : and this hath been promoted by | | attemps of the like nature;for we read in Plinie that one Dinocrates be- | RP 6g en

ganto Arche the Temple of Arſinoe in Alexandria with Load ſtone, that ſo her ſtatne might be ſuſpended in the ayre to the amazement of the bcholders; and to lead on our credulity, herein confirmation may be drawne from Hiſtory and Writers of good authority : ſois it re- ported by Ruffinus , that inthe Temple of Serapis there was an iron chariot ſuſpended by Loadſtones in the ayre , which ſtones removed, the chariot fell and daſhed into peeces. The like doth Beda report of | Bellerophons horſe which framed of iron, and placed betweene two Loadſtones with winges expanſed, hung pendulous in the ayre,

The verity of theſe ſtories we ſhall not turther diſpute their poſſibi- lity, we may in ſome way determine; if we conceive,what no man will deny , that bodies ſuſpended in the aice have this ſuſpenfion from one

or many Loadſtones placed both above and below it, or elſe by ene or many placed only above it. Likewiſe the body to be ſuſpended in | reſpe& of the Loadſtone above , is placed firſt at a pendulous diſtance in the medium,or elſe attracted unto that ſite by the vigor ofthe Load- ſtone; and ſo we firſt afficm that poſſible it is a body may be ſuſpended between two Loadſtones ; that is, it being ſo equally attraRted unto both that it defermineth it ſelfe unto neither : but ſurely this poſition will beof no duration; for if the ayre be agitated or the body waved either way , it omits the equilibration and diſpoſeth it ſelfe unto the neareſt attraRer, Again,it is not impoſſible(though hardly feiſtble) by a ſingle Loadſtone to ſuſpend an iron in theayre, the iron being artifi- cially placed.,and at a diſtance guided toward the ſtone,untill it find the newtrall point wherein its gravity juſt equalls the magneticall quality, | the one exaRly extolling as much as the other deprefſeth; and thus

muſt be interpreted Fracaſtorins, And laſtly, impoſſible it is that if an iron reft upon the ground , and a Loadſtone be placed over it, ir ſhould ever ſo ariſe as to hang in the way or medium ; for that vigor | which at a diſtance is able to overcome the reſiſtance of its gravity [ and to lift it up from the earth , will as it approacheth nearer be ſtill more able to attraR it, and it will never xemaine inthe middle that could not abide inthe extreams;andthus is to be underſtood Gilbertus. Now the way of Baptiſi« Porta that by a thred faſtencth a needleto a table, and then ſo guides and orders the ſame, that by the attraction of the Loadſtone it abideth in the aire, infcingeth not this reaſon; for this is a violent retention, and if the thred be looſened , the needle aſcends and adheres untothe AttraRor.

The third conſideration concerneth relations Medicall, wherein what ever effects are delivered , they are derived from its minerall and ferre- ous condition , or elſe magneticall operation. Ulato the ferreous and minerall quality pertaineth what Dioſcorides an ancient Writer and Souldier under Anthony and Cleopatra, affirmeth , that halfea dram

of Loadſtone given with honey and water , proves a purgative medi- Cine,

cine, and evacuateth grofle humors , but this is a quality of great in- certainty, for omitting the vehicle of water and honey , which is of a laxative power it ſelfe , the powder of ſome Loadſtones in this doſe doth rather conſtipate and binde , then purge and looſen the belly. And if ſometimes it caufe any laxity it is probably in the ſame way F with iron and ſtecle unprepared, which will diſturbe ſome bodies, and | worke by purge and vomit. And therefore , what is delivered in a booke aſcribed unto Galen that it isa good medicine in dropfies , and evacuates the waters of perſons ſo affeed: Ic may I confeſle by ficcity and aſtriQion afford a confirmation unto parts relaxed, and ſuch as be hydropically diſpoſed, and by theſe qualities it may be uſefull in Her- nias or Ruptures , and for theſe it is commended by Ztius , Agineta and Oribafius, who only affirme that it containes the vertue of Hzma- tites, and being burnt was ſometimes yvended for it. To this minerall condition belongeth what is delivered by ſome, that wounds which are made with weapons excited by the Loadſtone, contract a maligni- ty, and become of more difficult cure; which nevertheleſle is not to be found inthe incifion of Chyrurgions with knives and lancets touched, | which leave no ſuch effec behindethem. Hicherto muſt we alſo referre that affirmative which ſayes the Loadſtone is poyſon, and therefore in the liſts of poyſons we finde it in many Authors z but this our experi- ence cannot confirme , and the praRice of the King of Zeilan clearl contraditerh , whoas Garcias 46 Herts , Phyfitian unto the Spani Viceroy delivercth, hath all his meat ſerved up in diſhes of Loadſtone, and conceives thereby he preſerveth the vigor of youth. | Burſurely from a magneticall aRivity muſt be made out what is let | fall by Zrius,that a Loadſtone held inthe hand of one that is podagri- call doth either cure or give great caſe inthe gout. Or what Marcellus Empericus affirmeth, that as anamulet it alſo cureth the head-ach, wb are but additions unto its proper nature, and hopefull enlargements of its allowed attraRion z for perceiving its ſecret power to draw unto it ſelfe en, 0 ns bodies, men have invented a new attraQion to draw out the dolorand paine of any part. And from ſuch grounds it ſurely | became a philter, and was conceived a medicine of ſome venereal! at- tration, and therefore upon this ſtone they graved the Image of Ve- nus according unto that of Claudian , Fewerem magnetica gemma fi- gurat, Hither muſt wee alſo referre, what is delivered concerning its power to draw out of the body bullets andheads of arrows , and for | the like intention is mixed up in plaiſters-: +which courſe although as” vaine and ineffeuall it be rejeRed by many good Authors, yet is it not me thinks ſo readily to be denyed , nor the praQtice of many ages and, Phyfitians which have thus compounded plaiſters,thus ſuddenly to be condemned, as may be obſerved in the Emplaſtrum diuinum Nicolai, the Empleſiram nigrum of Augſpurge, the Opodekdoch and Ariat? K .

cans of Paracelſus,with ſeverall more inthe Diſpenſatory of Wecker,

but wait a second! does this mean that it’s fascist to dislike the slop, that art and beauty is really bad actually, and that the good ending is the one where universal robotic master feeds every animal grey vegan goop? possibly. i might write on it sometime but i have felt in the past that there is an alignment between art, beauty, fascism, and suicide. it wouldn’t be the first time that some harebrained thought that appealed to me was bad actually, and it certainly won’t be the last. but i think where the fascist impulse bubbles out of horror at your desires and negating them, what i’m vibing with for now is affirming your horrifying desires. we’ll see where that gets me.

| and praRiſe of Scanertus;the cure alſo of Heurnias, or Ruptures in Pa-

reus,and the method alſo ef curation lately delivered by Daniel Beck- herus, and approved by the Profeſſors of Leyden in the TraRt de Cul. drivers Prafſiaco,1636. that is, of a young man of Spruceland that caſu-

ally (wallowed downe a knife about teninches long, which was cut out |

of his tomach and the wound healed up. In which cure to attrat the knife to a convenient ſituation, there was applyed & plaiſter made up with the powder of Loadſtenc. Now this kinde of pratice Libavius, Gilbertus, and lately Swickardus in his Ars Magnetica, condemne, as vaine, and altogether unuſefull , and their reaſon is, becauſe a Load- ſtone in powder hath no attraQive power for in that forme it omits his polary reſpeRs, and looſeth thoſe parts which are the rule of its attra- Aion : wherein to ſpeake —_— if experiment hath not de- 0

attration. For ifthe powder of a rich veine be in a reaſonable quan- tity preſented toward the Needle freely placed , it will not appeate to be void of all aRivity, but will be able to ſtir it 5 nor hath it only a po- wer to move the Needle inpowder and by itſelfe, but this will it alſo doe, if inco ed and mixed withplaiſters, as we have made triall in the E rum de Minis, with halfe an ounce of the ng dram of Lions , for applying the magdaleon or roale unto the Needle ic would both ſtir and ateraR it 3 not equally in all parts, but more As mg in ſome, according unto the mine of che ſtone more plentifully diſperſed in the maſſe. And laſtly, in the Loadſtone pow-

deted.the polary reſpeQs are not wholly d m_ for thoſe diminu- tive particles are not atomicall or meerly indivifible , but conſiſt of di- menſions ſufficient fer their conditions , though in obſcure effcs. Thus if unto the powder of Loadſtone or Iron weadmove the North pole of the Loadſtone, the powders or ſmall divifions will ere& and conforme themſelves thereto : but if the South pole approach, the

will ſubſide , and inverting their bodies reſpeR the Loadſtone with the other extreame. And this will net only in a body of pow-

Now though we affirme not theſe plaifters wholly incffeQuall , yet ſhall we not omic ewo cautions in their uſe , that therein the ſtone bee nottoo ſubtily ered ; for it will better manifeſt its attraRion in a more ſenſible di on; that where is deſired a ſpeedy cffeR, ir may be conſidered whether it were not better to relinquiſh the powdered plaiſters, and to apply an entyre Loadſtone unto the part : And though the - — 9s ; un way be not more powerfull, and ſo mi ve been in the cure 0 man dclivered by Beckerus, me "

The laſt conſideration, concerneth Magicall relations, in which ac-

count we comprehend effects derived and fathered upon hidden quali- ties,ſpecifical forms, Antipathies and Sympathies, whereof from recei- | ved grounds of Art,no reaſons are derived. Herein relations are ſtrange | and numerous , men being apt in all ages to multiply wonders, and | Philoſophers dealing with admirable bodies as Hiſtorians have done | with excellent men, upon the ſtrength of their great atchievements, aſ- | cribing a&s unto them not only falſe , but impoſſible , and exceeding eruch as much in their relations, as they have others in their aRions. Hereof we ſhall briefly mention ſome delivered by Authors of good eftcem , whereby we may diſcover the fabulous inventions of = the credulous ſupunity of others, and the great diſſervice unto truth by | both; mulciplying obſcurities in nature, and authorifing hidden quali- ics that are falſe , whereas wiſe men are aſhamed there are ſo many true. And firſt, Dioſcorides puts upon it a ſhrewd quality,and ſuch as men are apt enough to experiment, and therewith diſcovers the incontinen- cie of a wife by placing the Loadſtone under her pillow; forthen ſhee | will not be able to remaine in bed with her husband. The ſame he al- | ſo makes a helpe unto theevery ; for theeves ſaith he , having a de- figne upon a houſe , doe make a fire at the foure corners thereot, and caſt therein the fragments of Loadſtane, whence ariſcth a fume that ſo | diſturbeth the inhabitants , that thef forſake the houſe and leave itto the ſpoyl of the robbers. This relation how ridiculous ſoever,hath Al- bertus taken up aboye a thouſand years after, &:Marbodeus the French- | man hath continued it the ſame in Latine verſe, which with the notes of PiRorious is currant unto our dayes. As ſtrange muſt be the Litho- mancy or divination from this ſtone, whereby as Tzetzes in his Chy- liads delivers, Helenus the Prophet foretold the deſtrution of Troy; and the Magick thereof, not ſafely to be beleeved, what was delivered by Orpheus, that ſprinkled with water it will upon a queſtion emit a voyce not much unlike an Infant. But ſurely the Loadſtone of Lau- rentius Guaſcus the Phyfitian is never to be matched , wherewith as Cardane delivercth, whatſoever needles or bodies were touched, the -wounds and punRures made thereby, were never felt at all. And yet as ſtrange a vertue is that which is delivered by ſome that 2 Loadſtone preſerved in the ſalt of a Remora, acquires a powerto attraR gold out otthe deepeſt Wells. Certainly a ſtudied abſurdity, not caſually caſt out, but plotted for a perpetuity : for the ſtrangeneſle of the effeR | ever = bee admired , and the difficulty of the tryall never to bee con- victed. Theſe conceits are of that monſtroſity that they refute themſelves in their recitements : there is another of better notice, and whiſh thorow the world with ſome attention; credulous and vulgar auditors readily beleeving it,and more judicious and diftinRive heads,not _ FF” KS gether

honestly i don’t really know what i’m saying at all, this is pretty incoherent. i’m not exactly sure “what wanting what i don’t want” means, and as far as i’m aware this is a phrase that i came up with, from the name of some lame noise rock album that anthony fantano rated highly back in the day, whos lead singer is a rapist. rape seems really bad. if you want to rape people, i think you please shouldn’t. and “horrifying desires” is maybe another thing. obviously the appeal of the repackaged “zizek take” is that i love thinking that the fascists are secretly repressed gays, trannies and chasers, but i think i had a realization a few years ago when some pedophiles raided brainworm that we think they’re repressed queers because we’re queer, and they think we’re pedophiles because that’s what they are, and that’s an even more appealing psychoanalytic structure, so maybe that’s the case? perhaps the really monstrous stuff like rape and pedophilia are downstream of other desires that one finds horrifying and represses, but i really don’t know much about the psychology of those things, nor do i really care or want to know much about them.

her rejeRing ir. The conceit is excellent, and if the effe& would low ſomwhat divine, whereby we might communicate like ſpirits, and conferre on carth with Menippus in the Moone, which is pretend- cd from the ſympathy of two needles touched with the ſame Load- ſone, and placed inthe center of two Abecedary circles, or rings with letters deſcribed round about themzone friend keeping one, & another the other, and agrecing upon an houre wherein theywil communicate. For then ſaith tradition, at what diſtance of place ſoever , when one needle ſhall be removed unto any letter ; the other by a wonderfull Sympathy will move unto the ſame. But herein I conteſle my experi- ence can finde no truth z for having expreſly framed ewo circles of wood, and according tothe number of the Latine letters divided each into twenty three parts , placing therein two ſtiles or needles compo- ſed of the ſame ſteele , touched with the ſame Loadſtone, and at the ſame point : yet of theſe two,whenſoever I removed the one, although

| but at the diſtance of halfe a ſpanne, the other would ſtand like Her-

cules pillars, and if the earth ſtand ſtill , have ſurely nomotion at all, Now as it is not poſſible that any body ſhould have no boundaryes, or 25 we terme it Sphere of its aQivity, {o is it improbable it ſhould effeR chat at diſtance, which nearer hand it cannot at all performe.

Againe, the conceit is ill _—_— and one effcR inferred, whereas indeed the contrary will enſue. For if the removing of one of the needls from A to B ſhould have any aRion or influence on the other,it would not intice it from A to B butrepell it from Ato Z : for needles excited by the ſame point of the ſtone, doe nat attraR, but avoyd each other,even as thele aiſo do,jwhen their invigorated extreams approach unto one another,

Laſtly, were this conceit affuredly true, yet were it not a concluſion at every diſtance to be tryed by every head: yet being no ordinary or Almanack bufinefſe, but a probleme Mathematicall , to finde out the difference of houres in different places ; nor doe the wiſeſt exacly ſatisfie themfelves in all. For the houres of ſeverall places anticipate each other , according unto their Longitudes , which are not exa&ly diſcovered of every place, and therefore the triall hereof at a conſider- able intervall,is beſt performed at the diſtance of the Antzci, that is, ſuch habitations as have the ſame Meridian and equall parallell,on dif- ferent ſides of the Equator, or more plainly have the ſame Longitude, and the ſame Latitude unto the South, which wee have in the North. For unto ſuch Situgtions it is noone and midnight at the very ſame time. | And thereforethe Sympathic of theſe needles is much of the ſame mould, with that intelligence which is pretended from the fleſh of one body tranſmuted by incifion info another. For if the Arte of Talia-

cotius de Cariorams Chyrergia per inciſionem, a permutation of fleſh , or

cranſmutation be made from one mans body into another, as if apiece of fleſh be exchanged from rhe biciptall muſcle of cither partics arme, and about them both , an Alphabet circumſcribed ; upon a time ap- |

inted as ſome conceptions affirme , they may communicate at what diſtance ſoever. For if the one ſhall prick himſelf in A, the other at the ſame time will have a ſenſe thereof in the ſame part z and upon in- ſpection of his ar me, perceive what letters the other points out in his owne; which is a way of intelligence very ſtrange, and would requite the Arte of Pythagoras, who could read a reverſe inthe Moone.

Now this Magneticall conceit how ſtrange ſoever , might have ſome originall in reaſon; far men obſerving no ſolid body,whatſoever did interrupt its aRion, might be induced to beleeve no diſtance would rerminate the ſame, 8 moſt conceiving it pointed unto the pole of hea- ven, might alſo opinion that nothing between could reſtrain it. Who- ſoever was the Author , the Xolus that blew it about , was Famianus Strada,that clegant Jeſuit in his Rhetoricall prolutions, who choſe our

of this ſubie& to expreſle the ſtile of Lucretius. But neither =<.” 4 Porta,de furtivis literarum n0tis; Trithemius inhis Steganography, Si - nus in his Cryptography, or Nuncius izan/matze written of late yeers

this past week i finished twin peaks, at least the second season of it, i haven’t yet seen fire walk with me. kinda thematic spoilers, but i really like a lot of things it did, i actually think it had a really satisfying ending, and i got out of it like a sense that evil emerges out of the desire to stamp evil out of the world, especially when that desire allows for self-sacrifice. last night i saw there will be blood, which was very aesthetically pleasing and historically stimulating, but i found it a bit less moving. it, i feel like, also thematic spoilers, almost felt like an anti-war film, in that we see capital and religion mutually grow up and evolve side-by-side each other through their war, which of course leaves hollow devastation in it’s wake.

DF Ty of Herford,make any confideration : al- though they deliver many wayes to communicate our thoughts at di- _ And this we will not deny may in ſome manner be effeRed by the Loadſtonexthat is, from one room into an other, by placing a table | inthe wall common unto both , and writing thereon the ſame letters one againſt another : for upon the approach of a vigorous Loadſtone unto a letter on this fide, the needle will move unto the ſame on the other: Bur this is a very different way from ours at preſent; and hereof

As for unguentum Armariam, Called alſo Megneticum , it belongs not to this diſcourſe, it neither having the Loadſtone for its ingredi- ent , nor any one of its aRions: but ſuppoſeth other principles,as com- mon and univerſall ſpirits, which convey the aRion of the remedy un- to the part, and conjoynes the vertue of bodies far disjoyned. But per- haps the cures it doth, are not worth ſo mighty principles, it com- | monly healing but ſimple wounds , and ſuch as mundified and kept cleane, doe need no other hand then that of Nature, and the Balſam of the proper part. Ulnto which effeR,there being fields of Medicines ſut- ficient, it may bee a hazardous curioficie to relic on this 4 and becauſe men ſay the effeR doth generally follow,it might be worth the cxperi- ment totry, if the ſame will not enſue upon the ſame method of cure, by ordinary Balſams,or common vulnerary plaſters.

Other Diſcourſes there might be made of the Loadſtone, as Moral!, My ſticall, Theologicall;and ſome have hand{omly done them,as Am-

broſe, Anſtine,Guliclmus Pariſienſis,and many morezbur theſe fal un- derno rule,and are as boundles as mens inventions;and though honeſt minds do glorific God hereby, yet do they moſt powerfully magnitie him, and are fo be looked on with another eye, who demonſtratively ſet forth its Magnalities , who not from poſtulated or precarious in- ferences, entreate a courteous aſſent, but from experiments and unde- niable cfeRs, enforce the wonder of its Maker.

{J Aving thus ſpoake of the Loadſtone and bodies magneticall , I ſhall in the next place deliver ſomewhat of EleAricall, and ſuch as may ſceme to have attraRion like the other, and hereof wee ſhall alſo deliver what particularly ſpoken or not generally knowne is mani- feſtly or probabletrue , what generally belceved is alſo falſe or dubi- ous. Now by EleQricall bodies, 1 underſtand not ſuch as are Me- tallicall mentioned by Pliny , and the Ancients, for their Eletrum was a mixture made of gold , withthe addition of the fifth part of (il- ver, a ſubſtance now as unknowne, as true Aurichalcum, or Coriathi- an braſſe, and ſet downe among things loſt by Pancirollus. Nor by Eledtrick bodies do I conceive ſuch onely as take up ſhavings, ſtrawes, and light bodies, in which number the Ancients onely placed Jet and | Amber ; but ſuch as conveniently placed unto their obje&s atrraR all bodies palpable whatſoever.I {ay, conveniently placed,that is,in regard | of the objeR, that it be not too ponderous,, or any way affixcd inre- gard of the Agent, that it be not foule or ſullied, but wiped, rubbed, and excitated in regard of both, that they be conveniently diſtant, and no impediment interpoſed. ſay all bodies palpable,thereby excluding fire, whichindeed it will not attraR, nor yet draw through it , for fice conſumes its efluxions by which it ſhould attraR. |

Now although in this ranke but ewo were commonly mentioned by the Ancients, Gilberfus diſcovereth many more, as Diamonds, Sa- phyres, Carbuncles, Iris, Opalls, Amethiſtes, Berill, Chryſtall, Bri- | ſtoll Rones, Sulphur, Maſtick, hard Wax, hard Rofin, Arſenic, Sal | gemme, roch Alume, common Glaſle, Stibium, or glafſe of Antimo- | ny ; untotheſe Cabeus addeth white Wax, Gum Elemi, Gum Guaic), | Pix Hiſpanics, and Gypſum. And unto theſe wee adde gum Anime, Benjamin, Talcum, Chyna diſhes, Sandaraca, Turpentine, Styrax Li- quida, and Carannadryed into a hard confiſtence. And the ſame at- tration wee finde not onely in ſimple bodies , but ſuch as are much compounded, as the Oxicreceum plaſter, and obſcurely that ad Herni-

az, and Gratis Det,all which ſmoothand rightly prepared, will diſco- | ver

ver a ſufficient power to ſtirre the needle ſetled freely upon a wel poin- ted pinne, and {oas the EleQrick may be applyed unto it without all diſadvantage.

But Sion of theſe EleQricks we obſerveto be very different, Reſinous or unRuons bodies, and ſuch as will flame,attraR moſt vigo- rouſly and moſt thereof without fication, as Anime, Benjamin and | moſt powerfully good hard wax , which will convert the needle al- | ' moſt as aQively as the loadſtone ; and wee beleeve that all or moſt of chis ſubſtance if reduced to hardnefle tralucency or cleerenefſe, would have ſome attraQivequality ; but juyces concrete, or gums eaſily dil- ſolving in water,draw not at all, as Aloe, Opium, uis Draconis, Lacca, Galbanum, Sagapenum. Many ſtones alſo precious and vulgar, although terſe and ſmooth have not this power attraRive z as Emeralds, Pcarle, Jaſpis, Corneleans, Agathe, Heliotropes, Marble, Alablaſter, Touchſtone, Flint and Bezoar. Glaſſe attraRs but weakely though cleerc, ſome {lick ſtones and thick glaſſes indifferently: Arſenic but weakely, ſo likewiſe glafſe of Antimony, but Crocus Mctallorum | not at all. Saltes generally but weakely, as Sal Gemma, Alum and alſo | Talke ; nor very diſcoverably by any frication : but it gently warmed at the fire, and wiped with a dry cloth, they will better diſcover their

No metcall attraQts, nor any concretian Animall wee know , al- though polite and ſmoothe z as wee have made triall in Elkes hooves, | Hawkes talons, the ſword of a Sword fiſh, Tortoyſe ſhels, Sea-horſe and Elephants teeth, in bones, in Harts horne, and what is uſually con- ceived Unicornes horne, no wood though never ſo hard and poliſhed, although out of ſome Electricks proceed, as Ebony, Box, Ligoum vitz, Cedar, &c. And although Jet and Amber be reckoned among Bitumens, yet neither doe we finde Aſphaltus, that is, Bitumen of Ju- dea, nor Seacole,nor Camphire, nor Mummia to attraR, although we have tried in large and poliſhed pieces. Now this attraQion have wee tried in ſtrawes and paleous bodies, in needles of Iron equilibrated, powders of wood and Iron, in gold and filyer foliate , and not onely in ſolid but fluent and liquid bodies, as oyles made both by expreſſion and diſtillation, in water, in ſpirits of wine, vitrioll and Aqua tortis.

so kinda taking these two ideas for now, what i think “make n-flowers bloom” might mean would be to have the courage to not fight that thing that horrifies you, to let people enjoy things, to let them cook

But how this attraRtion is made is not ſo cafily determined z that | tis performed by effluviuens is plaine and granted by moſt , for Ele- ricks will not commonly attraR, except they grow hot or be perſpi- cable. Forif they be foule and obnubilated, it hinders their effluxion, nor it they be covered though but with Linnen or Sarſenet, or it a bo- dy be interpoſed, for that intercepts the cfluvium. If alſo a powerfull and broad Ele&rick of wax or Anime be held over fic powder, the | Atomes or ſmall particles will aſcend moſt numerouſly unto it 3 and if | the EleQrick be held unto the light , ic may be obſerved that —_—

thereot will flye, and be as it were diſcharged from the EleGtrick to the | diſtance ſometime of two or three inches, which motion is performed

by the breath of the effluvium ifluing wita agility; for as the EleQick cooleth, the projeRion of the Atomes ceaſeth.

The manner hereof Cabeus wittily attempteth , affirming that this effluyium attenuateth and impelleth the neighbour ayre , which retur- ning home in a gyration, carrieth wich it the obvious bodies unto the Elerick, andthis he labours to confirme by experiments, for if the ſtrawes be raiſed by a vigorous elerick, they Lo appeare to wave and turne in their aſcents ; if likewiſe the EleQrick be broad and the ſtrawes light and chaffy, and held at a reaſonable diſtance, they will not ariſe unto the middle, but rather adhere toward the verge' or bor- ders thereof. And laſtly, if many ſtrawes be laid together and a nimble EleRrick approach, they will not all ariſe unto ir, but ſome will com- monly ſtart aſide and be whirled a reaſonable diſtance from it. Now that the ayre impelled returnes unto its place ina gyration or whirling, is evident from the Atomes or moates in the Sua. For when the Sunne ' | ſoenters a hole or window , that by its illumination the Aromes or moates become perceptible, if then by our breath the ayre bec gently impelled, it may be perceived that they will circularly returne, and in a gyration unto their places againe.

Another way of their attraRion is alſo delivered, that it is made by a tenuous emanation or continued effluvium, which after ſome diſtance retraeth into it ſelfe, as is obſervable in drops of ſyrups, oyle and ſe- | minall viſcoſities, which ſpun at length retire into their former dimen- { fions. Now theſe efluviums advancing from the body of the Ele- rick, in their returne doe carry back the bodies which they have laid hold within the ſpheare or circle of their continuities , and theſe they do not onely attrat but with their viſcous armes, hold faſt a good | while after. And if any ſhall wonder why theſe effluviums iſſuing forth | impell and protrude not the ſtraw before they can bring it back, it is

becauſe Efluvium paſſing out in a ſmaller thred and more enlengrhe- ned filament, it ſtirreth not the bodies 1 ſed but returning unto its originall it falls into a cloſer ſubſtance, and carrieth them back unto it ſelte. And this way of attraRtion is beſt received,embraced by Sir Ke- nelme Digby in his excellent Treaty of bodies, allowed by Des Cartes in his principles of Philoſophy, as farre as concerneth fat and refinous bodies, and with exception of glaſſe, whoſe attraQion he alſo deriveth from the receſle of its efluxion. And this in ſome manner the words of Gilbertus will beare. Zffluvia ils tenwiera concipiunt & amplettuntur corpora, quibus uniantur, &r Elefris tanquam extenſis brachits & ad fon- zem , propinquitate invaleſcemibus effluviis , deducantur. And it the R—_ were true that the earth were an EleQrick body, and the ayre

the effluyium thereof, wee might perhaps beleeve that from this attraction |

| for then the oyle makes the ftraw to adhere unto the part whereon |

attraQion and by this <ffluxion that bodies tended tothe earth, and could not remaine abouc it. Our other diſcourſe of EleQricks concerneth a penerall Opinion touching Jet and Amber, that they attraG all light bodies » except O- mor Baſil, and ſuch as bedipped in oyle or oyled , and this is ed as high as Theophraſtus : but Scaliger acquitteth him; And had this bin his aſſertion, Pliny would probably have taken it up, who herein ſtands out, and delivereth no more but what is vulgarly known. But Plutarch ſpeakes poſitively in his Syrmpoſiacks, that Amber at- traceth all bodies, excepting Bafil and oyled ſubſtances. With Plu- tarch conſent many Authors both ancientand moderne , but the moſt inexcuſable are Lemnius, and Rueus, whereof the one delivering the nature of minerals, mentioned in Scripture the infallible fountaine of | truth , confirmeth their yertues with erroneous traditions z the other undertaking the occult and hidden miracles of Nature, accepteth this for one , and endeavoureth toalledge a reaſon of that which is more | then occult, that is not exiſtent. Now herein, omitting the Authority of others , as the docrine of | experiment hath informed us we firſt affirme, that Ainber attracts not | Baſil, is wholly repugnant untotruth , for ifthe leaves thereof or dry- ed ſtalkes be ſtripped into ſmall ſtrawes,they ariſe unto Amber, Wax, and other EleQties no otherwiſethen thoſe of Wheate or Rye; nor is there any peculiar fatneſſe or ſingular viſcofity in that plant that might cauſe adheſion and ſo preyent its aſcenſion. But that Jet'and A attraR not ſtrawes oyled, is in part true and falſe, for if the ſtrawes be much wet or drenched in oyle,true it is that Amber draweth them not, |

they are placed, ſo that they cannot riſe unto the Attracor, and this is true not onely if they be ſoaked in oyle , but ſpirits of wine or water. Bur if we ſpeake of ſtrawes or feſtucous diviſions lightly drawen over with oyle, and ſo that it cauſeth no adheſion, or if we conceive an an- tipathy betweene oyle and Amber, the doQrine is not true; for Am- ber will attraRt ftrawes thus oyled,it will attraR or convert the Needls of Dials made either of Brafſe or Iron, although they be much oyled , for intheſe Needls conſiſting free upon their center there can be no adhefion , it will likewiſe attraR oyle it ſelfe, and if it approacheth un- toadrop thereof , it becommeth conicall and ariſeth up unto it, for oyle taketh not away his attraQion, although it be rubbed over it. For if youtoucha piece of wax already excitated with common oyle, it will notwithſtanding attraR, chough not ſo vigorouſly as before. But it you moyſten the {ame with any chymicall oyle, water or fpirits of wine, of onely breath upon it, it quite omits its AttraRion, for cither ies efluetices cannot get through or will not mingle with thoſe ſub- |

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32 Enquiries into Vulgar Book 2, | Ic is likewiſe probable the Ancients were generally miſtaken con- cerning its ſubſtance and generation , they conceiving it a vegetable coricretion made of the gums of trees,eſpecially, Pine and Poplar fal- ling into the water, and after indurated or hardened, whereunto accor- deth the fable of Phactons ſiſters: but ſurely the concretion is mine- rall, according as is delivered by Boetius ; for either it is foundin | | | mountaines and mediterraneous parts, and fo it isa fat and unQuous | ſublimation in the earth concreted and fixed by falt and nitrous ſpirits | wherewith itmeeteth ; or clſc, which is moſt uſuall, ic is colleRed up- on the ſea ſhore , and ſoit is a fat and bituminous Juice coagulated by the ſaltneſſe of the ſea. Now that ſalt ſpirits have a power to congele and coagulate unfuous bodies, is evident in chymicall operations, in | | the diſtillations of Arſenick, ſublimate and Amimony, in the mixture of oyle of Juniper, with the ſalt and acide ſpirit of Sulphur, for there- upon enſueth a concretion unto the confiſtence of Birdlime; as alſo im {pirits of ſalt , or Aqua fortis powred upon oyle of Olive, or more plainly in the manufature of Soape. And many bodics will coagulate upon commixture whoſe ſeparated natures promiſe no concretion, Thus upon a ſolution of Tinne by Aqua fortis, there will enſue a cea- eulacion, like that of whites of cgges. Thus the volatile ſalt of urine will coagulate Aqua vitz, or ſpirits of wine z and thus perhaps (as Hel- montexcellently declareth )- the ſtones or calculous concretions in | Kidney or bladder may be produced:the ſpirits or volatile ſalt of urine conjoyning - with the Aqua vitz potentially lying therein ; as he illu- ſtrareth from the diſtillation of termented urine, From whence ariſcth an Aquavitz or ſpirit, which the volatile ſalt of the ſame urine will congele , and finding an carthy concurrence ſtrike into a lapideous ſubſtance, R Laſtly, we will not omit what Bellabonus upen his own experiment ; writ from Dantzich unto Mellichius, as hee hath left nemaind in his | Chapter, De ſuccino, that the bodies of Flies, Piſmires , and the like, | | which are (aid oft times to be included in Amber, are not reall but ap- | parentand reprelentative, as he diſcovered in ſeverall pieces broke | for that purpoſe ; if ſo, the two famous Epigrams hereof in Martiall | are but poeticall, the Piſmire of Braſſavolus Imaginary, and Cardans | Mouſoleum for aflye, a meere phancy. But hereunto we know not | how to aſſent in the Generall, as having met with ſome whoſe Reals ; made good their repreſentations,

ompendiouſly 0 wndry other common Tenents, concerning Minerall and Terre- | v 0u5 rg examined, prove either falſe or poomeng | 1. A Nd firſt we hear it in every mans mouth.,and in Au- |

Alton we reade it, That a Diamond, which is pr arr of | ſtones, and not _ unto ſtcele, Emery, or any thing, but its own powder, is yet made ſoft, or broke by the bloud of a Goat 3 Thus much is affirmed by Pliny, Solinus, Albertus, Cyprian, Auſtin, Ifi- dore , and many Chriſtian Writers, alluding herein unto the heart of | man, and the precious bloud of our Saviour, who was typified indeed by the Goat that was laine, and the ſcape Goat in the wilderneſle; and at the effuſion of whoſe bloud, not onely the hard hearts of his enc- mies relented , but the ſtony rocks and vaile of the Temple was ſhat- tered. Bur this I perceive is caſter affirmed then proved. For Lapida- ries, and ſuch as profeſſc the art of cutting this ſtone,doe generally de- oy it, and they that ſcem to countenance it , have in their deliveries ſo qualified it, tharlittle from thence of moment can be inferred for it. {For firſt, the holy Fathers, without a further enquiry did take it for granted, and reſted upon the authority of the firſt deliverers. As for Albertus, he promiſeth this effeR but conditionally, that is not except the Goat drinke wine , and be fed with Siler montanum, petroſelinam, and ſuch hearbes as are conceived of power to breake the ſtore in the bladder. But the words of Pliny from whom moſt likely the reſt at | firſt derived it, it ſtritly conſidered, doe rather overthrow, then any way advantage this cffet. His words are theſe: Hircins rumpitar ſan geine , nec alter quam recenti, calideque micerats, & fic quoque maltis ithibus, twnc etiam preterguam eximias incudes malleoſque ferrevs fran- gens, Thatis, it is broken with Goats blood, bur not except it bee treſh and warme , and that not without many blows , and then alſo it w1ll breake the beſt anvills and hammers of iron. And anſwerable hereto, is the aſſertion of Ifidore and Solinus. By which account, a Diamond ſteeped in Goats bloud, rather encreaſeth in hardneſle, then acquireth any ſoftneſle by the infuſion; for the beſt we have are com- minuible without it, and are ſofar from breaking hammers, that they ſubmit unto piſtillation, and re fiſt not an ordinary peſtle.

Upon this conceit aroſe, perhapsthe diſcovery of another , that is, that the bloud of a Goat , was ſovereigne for the ſtone, as it ſtands | commended by many good Writers, and brings up the compoitionio the Lichontripticke powder of Nicolaus,or rather becauſe it was found an excellent medicine for the ſtone , and its ability commended by ſome to diſſolve the hardeſt thereof; it might be conceived by amplity- ing apprehenſions, to be able tro breaka Diamond, and ſo it cameto be

perly altogether, that is pitch, fat and haire, according as is expreſſed KERR HE RE I

ordered that the Goat ſhould be fed with ſaxifragous herbes, and ſuch 25 are conceived of power to breake the ſtone. However it were as theeffſeR is falſe in the one, ſois it ſurely very doubttull in the other, Foralthough inwardly received it may be very diuretick , and expulſe the ſtone in the kidnyes;yet how it ſhould diſſolve or breake that inthe bladder, will require a further diſputc,and perhaps would be more rea- ſonably tryed by a warme injeRion thercof , then as it is commonly uſed. Wherein notwithſtanding, we ſhould rather relic upon the urine in Caſtlings bladder, a reſolution of Crabs eyes, orthe ſecond diſtil- lation of urine, as Helmont hath commended y or rather , if any ſuch might be found a ChylifaRory menſtruum or digeſtive preparation drawne from ſpecies or individualls, whale &omacks peculiarly diſfolve lapideous bodies.

2. That glaſſe s poyſes, according unto common conceit, I know not how to grant not only trom the innocency of irs ingredients, that is fine ſand , and the aſhes ofglafſe-wort or fearne, which in themſelves are harmeleſſe and uſefull : or becauſe I finde it by many commended for the ſtone, but alſo from experience, as having given unto dogs above a dram thereof, ſubtilly powdered in butter or paſte, without any viſible diſturbance. And thetryall thereof we the rather did make in chat animall, becauſe Grevinus in his Treaty of poyſons,affirmeth that dogges are inevitably deſtroyed thereby.

The conceit is ſurely grounded wm the viſible miſchicfe of glaſſe eroſſely or courſely powdered;for that indeed is mortally noxions,and effeQually uſed by ſome to deſtroy myce and rats , for that by reaſon of its acuteneſle and augularity, commonly excoriates the parts through which it paſſeth, and ſollicits them unto a continuall expulfi- on. Whereuponthere enſues fearfull ſymptomes , not much unlike thoſe which attend the aRion of poyſon. From whence notwith- ſtanding , we cannot with propriety impoſe upon it that name , either by occult or elementary quality; which he that concedeth will much enlarge the catalogue or liſtes of poyſons z for many things , neither deletcrious by ſubſtance or quality,are yet deſtruRive by figure, or — aQivity. ve _ _ —_ by ſame ac-

n ; not properly, that is by tem contrariety, occult forme, or ſo much as elementall repugnancy; but becauſc _ inwardly taken they faſten upon the vcines,and occaſion an cffufion o bloud, which cannot be caſily ftanched. So a ſponge is miſchievous, not in it ſelfe, for inits powder it is harmleſſe, but becauſe being recci- ved into the ſtomack it ſwelleth , and occafioning a continuall diſteo- fion, indnceth at laſt a ſtrangulation. So pins, ncedls, eares of Ryc or Barley, may be poyſon. So Daniel deftroyed the Dragon by a com- poſition of three things, whereof neither was poyſon alone , nor pro-

inthe Hiflory. Then Daniel tooke pitch, and far, and haire, and did ſcerhthem together and made lJumpsthereof, theſe he put in the Dra- gons mouth, and ſo he burſt afunder ; that is the fat and pitch beiog | cleaving bodies, and the haire continually extimulaciog the parts , by | che aRion of the one , nature was provoked to expell, but by the tena- city of the other forced to retaine : fothat there being keft'no

in the world of xcvr, i made a lot of good progress this week. namely, the signet creation mechanism and the lexicon event stream should be working, so like chat history is still an endpoint that i am lacking, but besides that and probably a hundred thousand bugs to squash and step on, the backend is done! and yesterday on the frontend i got mobile layout to work a lil bit, haha, so we are really moving forward! it would be cool and it seems entirely possible to have a beta release THIS WEEK! (inb4 i spend the next 3 months lying on the couch eating hot chip and listening to mark fisher lectures)

in or out, the Dragon brake in peeces. It muſt re bee taken of groſſely powdered glaſſe what is delivered by Grevinus, and fromthe | ſame muſt that mortall diſlentery proceed which is related by SanQo- rius; and inthe ſame ſenſe ſhall we onely allow a Diamond to be poy- ſon , and whereby as fome relate Paracelfus himſclfe was poyſoned. And ſo alſo eventhe precious fragments and cordiall gems = Con of frequent uſe in Phyficke, and in themſelves confeſſed of ufefull faculties , received in grofle and angular powders, may fo offend the bowells , as to procure deſperate languors, or cauſe moſt dangerous

3+ That Gold inwardly taken,and chateither in ſubſtance, infuſion, decoQion or extinRion is a ſpeciall cordiall of great efficacy , in ſun- dry medicall uſes,although a praRice much nfed is alſo much queſtio- ned, and by no man determined beyond diſpute. There are hereof I

perceive two _— inions carne +> CU Sying ing it, and robably beyond its delerts; ot y vilitying ir,and perh. below irs demerits. Some affirming it is a nadie in = ny diſcaſes, others averring that ſo uſed it is effeQuallin none, and in this number are very eminent Phyſicians, Eraſtus, Duretus, Rondele- tius, Braſſavolus, and many other;who beſide the ſtrigments and ſudo- rous adheſions from mens hands , acknowledge that nothing procee- deth from gold in the uſuall decoction thereof. Now the capitall rea- ſon thatled men unto this opinion wastheir obſervation of the inſepe- rable nature of gold, it beiog excluded inthe ſame quantity as it was received without alteration of parts, or diminution ot its gravity. Now herein to deliver ſomewhat which in a middle way may be en- rertained;we firſt affirm & few I beleeve will deny it,that the ſubſtance of gold is indeed invincible by the powerfulleſt aRion of narurall heat, =d that not only alimenrally in a ſubſtantiall mutation, but alſo medi- camentally in any corporeall converſion, as is very evident, not only in the ſwallowing of golden bullers butin the lefler and foligte diviſions thereof, paſſing the ſtomack and guts evenas it doth the throat, that is without abatement of weight or confiſtence; fo that it entererh nor the veynes with thoſe eleQuaries, wherein it is mixed , but taketh leave of

CITI; at the mouthes of the milcraicks , and accompa- ith the converfion

inconvertible portion unto the fiegez nor is its ſubſtantial ble in aoy compoſition or aliment wherein it is ta-

expe&ible in _ And therefore that was oRieving ablrdiy, which bebef | | t

the wiſhes of Midas. And little credit there is tobe given to the golden Hen, related by Wendlerus. And fo likewiſe inthe extinion of gold, we muſt not conceive it parteth with any of its ſalt or difſoluble principle thereby, as we may affirme of Iron , for the parts thereof are fixed beyond diviſion z nor will they ſeperate upon the ſtrongeſt teſt] of fire. And this we affirme of pure gold , for that which is currant and paſſeth in ſtampe amongſt us, by reaſon of its allay , which is a proportion of copper mixed therewith, it is aQually dequantitated by fire, and poſſibly by frequent extinRion,

Secondly, alchough the ſubſtance of gold be not ſenſibly immuted or its gravity at all decreaſed , yetthat from thence ſome vertue may proceed either in ſubſtantiall reception or infuſion, we cannot ſafely deny. For poſſible it is that bodyes may emit a vertue and operation ur pot abatement of weight, as is moſt evident in the Loadſtone, whoſe effluencies are both continuall and communicable without a minoration of gravity. And the likg,is obſervable in bodies electricall, whoſe emiſſions are leſſe ſubtile. So wilt a Diamond or Saphire emit an effluvium ſufficient to move the needle or a ſtraw without dimi- nution of weight. Nor will poliſhed amber although ir ſend forth a erofſe and corporall exhalement be found a long time defeRive upon the ex3eſt ſcales.

Thirdly, if amulets doe worke by Aporrhoias, or emanations from their bodies, upon thoſe parts whereuntothey —_— , and are not yet abſerved to abate their weight; if they produce viſible and re- all effeRs by imponderous and inviſible emiſſions , it may be unjuſt to deny all efficacie of gold in the non- omiſſion of weight,or deperdition | of any ponderous particles. |

Laſtly, ſince Stibium or glaſſe of Antimony , Gnce alſo its Regulus | will manifeſtly communicate unto water, or wine, a purging and vo- | mitory operation; and yet the body it ſelfe, though after iterated infu- | fions, cannot be found to abate cither vertue or weight; I dare not de- ny but gold may doe the like ; that is, impart ſome effluences unto the | infuſion which carry with them the ſubtiler nature, and ſeparable con- ditions of its body.

i might make a blog for xcvr, that would be a good thing to do because i appreciate it when other new appviews have lil blogs abt them, and while this is on some level my development blog lmao, i pity anyone who in the future might be interested in how lrc works and looks at that post which is hella outdated, and then looks at all the more recent posts in horror frantically googling wtf is “rotpolitics”

That therefore this mettall thus received,hath any undeniable effe@ | upon the body either from experience in others or my ſelfe , I cannot | ſatisfaRorily affirm. That poſſibly it may havel not wil at all deny. But | from power unto a, froma poſſible unto an aQualloperation, the in- ference is not-reaſonable. And therefore fince the point is dubious, and not yet authentically decided , it will be diſcretion not to _ on diſputable remedies; but rather in caſes of knowne danger, to have recourſe unto medicines of knowne and approved aRivity z for beſide the benefit accruing unto the ficke, hereby may be avoyded a grofſc and frequent error, commonly committed in the uſe of ——_ re-

medies,conjoyntly with thoſe which are of approved vertue. Thatis, to impute the cure unto the conceited remedy, or place it on that whereon they place their opinion, whoſe operation h it be no- thing,or its concurrence not confiderable,yet doth it obtaine the name of the whole cure, and carryeth often the honour of the capitall ener- gie, which had no finger init, | 4. That a pot full of aſhes, will ſtill containe as much water as it would without them , although by Ariſtotle in his problems taken for granted , and ſo received by moſt , is ſurely very falſe, and not effe- Rible upon the ſtricteſt experiment I could ever make. For wkenthe ayery interſticies are filled , and as much of the ſalt of the aſbes as the watcr will imbibe is diſſolved, there remaines a grofile and terreous portion at the bottome which will poſlefſe a fpace by it ſelfe , accor- ing wheretothere will remaine a quantity of water not receiveable, ſo will it come to paſle ina pot of ſalt, although decrepitated; and ſo alſo in a pot of ſnow. For ſo much it will wantin reception, as its ſo- lution up, according unto the bulke whereof, there will remaine a portion of water not to be admitted. So a glaſle ſtuffed with peeces of ſpunge, will want abour a fixt part of what it would receive without

it, Soſuger will not diflolve beyond the capacity ofthe water, nor a |

pint of ſalt of cartar expoſed unto a moiſt aire untill it difſolve , will make far more liquor, oras ſome tearm it oyle, then the former mea- ſure will contain.

Nor is it only the excluſion of ayre by watcr, or repletion of cavi- ties poſſeſſed thereby which cauſeth a pot of aſhes to admit ſo great a quantity of water, but alſo the ſolution of the ſalt of the aſhes into the | body of the diffolvent ; ſo a ye of aſhes will receive ſomewhat more | of hot water then of cold , for as much as the warme water imbibeth more of the ſalt, and a veflell of aſhes more then one of pinduſt or fi- lings of Iron,and a glafle full of water, will yet drinke in a proportion of {alt or ſuger without overflowing,

5. Of white powder and ſuch asis diſcharged without report,there is no {mall noiſe in the world : but how far agreeable unto truth , few I perceive are able to determine. Herein therefore to ſatisfie the doubts of ſome,and amuſe the credulity of others, We firſt declareythat gun- powder conſiſteth of three ingredients, that is, Salt-peter, Smal- coale, and Brimſtone. Salt-peter , although it be alſo narwrall and found in ſeverall | n_ et is that of commonule an artificiall ſalt,drawa from the infuſion of he earth, as that of Stals. Stables, Dovchouſes, Ceclless, and other covercd places, where the raine canneither difſolve, nor the ſunne approachto reſolve it. Brimſtone is a Minerall body of fat and iflamable parts, and this is uſed crude, and calledſulphur vive, and is | ot a {adder colour, or after depuration, ſuch as we have in magdcleans |

or rolls,of a lighter ycllow : Smal-coale is commonly known unto all, | and for this uſe is made of Sallow, Willow, Alder,Haſell,and the like, which three proportionably mixed,tempered, and formed into granu-

lary bodies, doe make up that powder which is in uſe for gunnes. Now all theſe although they bear a ſhare in the diſcharge , yet have they diſtin& intentions, and different offices in the compoſition : from brimſtone proceedeth the continued and durable firing,for Small coal | and peter together will onely ſpit , nor eaſily continue the ignition, From Small-coale enſueth the black colour and quicke accenfion, for neither brimſtone nor peter , although in powder , will take fire like Small-coale, nor will they cafily kindle upon the ſparks of a flint, as neither will Camphire a body very inflamable, but ſmall-coal is cqui-| volent to tinder,and ſerveth to light the ſulphur : from 'ſalr-peter pro- ceedeth the force and the report, for ſulphur and ſmall- coale mixed will not take fire with noiſe, or exilition, and powder which is made of impure, and greahie peter, hath buta weake emiſſion, 2nd giveth a faint report,and therefore in the three ſorts of powder , the ſtrongeſt con- taineth moſt ſalt-peter , and the proportion thereof is at the leaſt ten | | parts of peter, unto one of coale and ſulphur.

Bur the immediate cauſe of the reporr, is the veliement commotion of the ayre upon the ſudden and violent eruption of the powder, tor that being ſuddenly fired, and almoſt altogether, being thus ratified it requireth by many degrees a greater ſpace then before irs body oc- cupied; but finding reſiſtance, ir aRiuely forceth out his way , and by concuſſion of the aire,occafioneth the report. Now with what vigour and violence it forceth upon the aire, may eafily be conceived , it wee admit what Cardan affirmeth , that the powder fired doth occupie a hundred times a greater ſpace then its own bulke, or rather what Snel- lius more exaQtly accounteth;that it exceedeth its former ſpace no leſle | then 12000, and 500. times. And this is the reaſon not onely of this tonnitruous and fulmioating report of gunnes, but may reſolve the cauſe of thoſe terrible cracks, and affrighting noiſe of heaven; that is, the nitrous and ſulphureous exhalations , ſct on fire in the cloudes, whereupon requiring a larger place, they force out their way,not only with the breaking of the cloud, bur the laceration of the ayre abour ir. | When if the matter be ſpirituons, and the cloud compa, the noiſe is great and terrible : If che cloud be thinne,and the materials weake, the eruption is languide, and ending in corruſcations without any noylſe, although bur at the diſtance of two miles , which is eſtcemed the re- moteſt diſtance of clouds; and therefore ſuch lightnings doe ſeldome | any harme. And therefore alſo it is prodigious to have thunder ina cleare skye,as is obſervably recorded in ſome Hiſtories.

Now therefore, he that would deſtroy the report of Powder, muſt worke upon the peter, he that would exchange the colour, muſt thinke how

in any case, this week i will certainly make channel views on my frontend of the appview actually allow you to enter your handle etc… (this has been a bit of a silly mistake land, it unfortunately might want like a redo of how signet records look because it’s important to me that lrc has the handle and not the did, since it should be human readable and i’d rather not have you send both, so i guess the signet record could have an optional did field which allows for future compatibilty if the user changed their handle, the message should still be valid)

furdity, that alſo ſuch a one as may give no report, wee will not deny a

livery of Braflayolus. 1amg, pu/vi imventae eft qui glandem ſine bombo

how to alter the {mall coale. For the one, that is, to make white pow- der, it is ſurely many wayes feaſible: The beſt I know is by the pow der of rotten willowes , ſpunck, or touchwood prepared, might per- haps make it ruſſet : and ſome as Beringuccio in his Pyrotechoy afficm- eth, have promiſed to make it red. All which notwithſtanding doth little concerne the report : for that as wee have ſhewed on an other ingredient; and therefore alſo under the color of blacke ; chis rinciple is very variable, for if is made not onely by Willow, Aller, Hazell, &c. But ſome above all commend the coales of Fl:xe and Ruſhes, and ſome alſo contend the ſame may bee effected with Tinder.

As for the other, that is, to deſtroy the Report , it is reaſonably at- tempted but two wayes; that 1s, either by quite leaving ont. or elſe by filencing the Salt-peter. How to abate the vigonr thereot, or (ilence its hanlitaien.s way is promiſed by Porta, and that nor onely in ge- nerall termes by ſome fat bodies, but in particular by Borax and Buer mixed in a due proportion; which ſayeth he,will ſo goe off as ſcarce to be heard by che diſcharger; and indeed plentifully mixed , it will al- moſt take off the reporr,and

alſo the force of the charge. That it may be thus made without Salt-peter, I have met with but one example, that is, of Alphonſus Duke of Ferrara, who in the relation of Brafla- volus and Cardan invented ſuch a Powder,as would diſcharge a bullet without report.

poſſibility. But this however, contrived either with or without Salt- ae will ſurely be of lictle force, and the effeRs thereof no way to

feared: For as it omits of report, ſo will it of effeuall excluſion, for ſceing as we have delivered the ſtrength and report, do neceſſarily depend upon the violent excluſion, where there is no report there will beno vice excluſion, and ſo the charge of no force which is exclu- ded. For thus much is reported of that famous powderof Alphonſus, which was not of force enough to kill a chicken , according to the de-

It is very true and not to bee denyed, there are wayes to diſcharge a bullet , not only with powder that makes no noiſe, but without any powder at all , as is done by water and windegunnes ; but theſe afford no fulminating report, and depend on ſingle principles,and even in or- dinary __ there are pretended other wayes, to alterthe noiſe and ſtrength of the diſcharge, and the beſt, if not onely way conſiſts in the quality of the Nitre : for as for other wayes which make cither addi- tions or alterations in the powder, or charge, I finde therein no cffeR,

Tirat unto every pound of ſulphur , an adjeRion of one ounce of M :

Qiickfilyer, or unto every pound of peter , one ounce of Sal Armo- niac will much intend the force, and conſequently report , as Berin- | guccio hach delivered, I find no verity therein. That a piece of Opium will dead the force, and blow as ſome have promiſed , I finde herein no ſuch peculiarity, no more then in any gumme or viſcole bedy, and 25 much effcR there is to be found from Scammonie. That a bullet dipped in oyle by preventing the tranſpiration of ayre, will carry far- ther, and peirce deeper, as Portu affirmeth, my experience cannot with ſatis{aRion diſcerne. That Quickſilver is more diſtruRive then ſhot is ſurely not to be made outs for it will ſcarce make any penetration , and diſcharged from a Piſtoll , will hardly pierce thorow a parchment. Thar vineger , ſpirits of wine, or the diſtilled water of Orange pilles, wherewith the powder is tempored , are more effeRuall unto the re- port then common water, as ſome doe promiſe, I ſhall not affirme, but may aſſuredly be more conduceable unto the preſervation and durance of the powder, as Cataneo hath well obſerved. | But beſide the prevalent report from Salt-peter by ſome antipathic, | or incummiſcibility therewith upon the approach of fire. Sulphur may hold a greater uſe in the compoſition and further aQvitie in the exclu- fion then is by moſt conceived; for ſulphur vive makes better pow- der then common ſulphur, which nevertheleſſe.is of as quicke accenſi- on as the other, for Small- coale, Salt-peter and Camphire made into powder will bee of little force , wherein notwithſtanding there wants not the accending ingredient; for Camphirethough it Lame well, yet will not fluſh ſo lively, or defecate Salt- peter , if you injeR it thereon like ſulphur, as in the preparation of S/ prene{e, And laſtly, though many wayes may be found to light this powder , yet is there none I know to make a ſtrong and vigorous powder of Salt-peter , without the admixion of ſulphur. Arſenick red and yellow, that is, Orpement ' and Sandarach may perhaps doe ſomething, as being inflamable and | containing ſulphur in them, but containing alſo a ſal, and hydr mixtion, they will be of little effeR z and white or Criſtaline arſenick | of lefle, forthat being artficiall, and ſublimed with ſale , will not en- | dure flamation. , | Aad this antipathy or contention between faltpeter and ſulphur ; upon an aQtuall fire, and in their compleat 8& diſtin bodies, is alſo ma-

in any any any case, RPN

nifeſted in their preparations , and bodies which inviſibly containe ; them. Thus isthe preparation of Crocus Metallorum,the matter kind-

leth and fluſheth like Gunpowder , whercin notwithſtanding, there is | nothing but Antimony and Saltpeter , but this proceedeth from the | {ulphur of Antimony, not enduring the ſociety of ſaltpeter ; for after | three or foure accenſions, through a freſh addition of peter, the pow- | der will fluſhno more; for the ſulphur of the Amtimony is quite exha- | led. Thus Iron in 4qus ford willfall into ebullition, with noiſe and emication,

emication , as alſo a crafle and fumide exhalation, which are cauſed | from this combat of the ſulphur of Iron, with the acide and nitrous | ſpirits of Aqua fortis. So is it alſo in Harm fulminans, or powder of | gold diſſolved in 4q»4 Regs, and precipitated with oyle of Tartar, which will kindle without an aRuall fire, and afford a report like Gun- | powder , that is, not as Crollius affirmeth from any Antipothy be- | ewcene Sal Armenia and Tartar, but rather. betweene the nicrous ſpi- rits of Xqus Regis,commixed per minime with the ſulphur of gold,as in | in his laſt, De conſenſu chymicoram &6.Sennertus hath well obſerved. { 6. That Corall (which is a Lithophyton or ſtone plant, and grow- eth at the bottome of the Sea) is ſoft under water, but waxcth hard as ſoone as it arriveth unto the ayre, although the aſlertion of Dioſcori- des, Pliny, and conſequentlySolinus, Ifidore,Rueus,and many others, and ſtands believed by moſt, we have ſome reaſon to doubt, not onely from ſo ſudden a petrifaRion and ſtrange induration, not cafily made | out from the qualities of Ayre, but becauſe we finde it rejeRed by ex- perimentall enquirers. Johannes Beguinus in his Chapter of the tin- | RY. ure of Corall, undertakes to cleere the world of this errour , from | by the expreſſe experiment of 1obn Beptiſts de Nicole , who was Overleer | j, 16, frouch of the gathering of Coral upon the Kingdome of Thunis. This Gentle- | Copy. man, ſaith he, deſirous to finde the nature of Corall,and to be reſolved | | how it groweth at the bottome of the Sea, cauſed a man to goe downe 00 lefſe then a hundred fathom into the Sea, with expreſle to take no- tice whether it were hard or ſoft in the place where it groweth, who returning brought in cach hand a branch of Corall, affirming it was as | hard atthe botrome, as in the ayre where he delivered it. The ſame was alſo confirmed by a triallof his owne, handling ita fathome under water before it feltthe ayre. Boetius de Boore in his accurate TraRt De Gemmis, is of the ſame opinion, not aſcribing its concretion unto the ayre, but the coagulating ſpirits of ſalt, and lapidificall juyceof the ſea, which.entring the parts of that plant, overcomes its vegerability, and converts it into a lapideous ſubſtance, and this, ſaith he, doth happen whenthe plant is ready to decay ; for all Corall is not hard, and in many concreted plants ſome parts remaine unpetrified, that is, the quick and livelier parts remaine as wood, and were never yet conver- ted. Now that plants and ligneous bodies may indurate under 'water without approachment of ayre, we have experiment in Coralline,with many Coralloidall concretions , and that little ſtony plant which Mr. Johnſon nameth, Hippuris coralloides, and Geſner folis minſu 4re- noſis ; we have our ſelfe tound in freſh water, which is the leſſe concre- tive portion of that clement. We have alſo with us the viſible petri- fication of wood in many waters, whereof ſo much as is covered with water converteth into ſtone, as much as is aboye itand in the ayre re- taineth the forme of wood, and continueth as before. M2 7.We

. Weare not thorowly refolved concerning Porcellane or Chy- na Jithes, that according to common beliefe they are made fo which lyeth in preparation about an hundred yeares under ground, for the rdations thereof are not onely divers, but contrary, and Authors not herein. Guido Pancirollus will have them made of

ſhells, Lobſter ſhells, and Gypſum layed up inthe earth the ſpace of $0. yeeres : of the ſame affirmation is Scaliger , and the common opi- nion ofmoſt. Ramuzius in his Navigations is of a contrary aſſertion, that they are made out of carth, not laid under ground , but hardened in the Sunne and winde, the ſpace of fourty yeeres. But Gonzales de \ Mendoza, a manemp into Chyna, and with an honourable pre-

ſent, ſent from Phillip -— > hath upon ocular ex- perience,delivereda way different from al chele.For enquicing into the artifice thereof, hee found they were made of a Chalky which | beaten and ſteeped in water, affoordeth a cream or fatneſſe on the top,

| and a groſſe ſubſidence atthe bottome; out of the cream or ſuperflui- ranice,the fineſt diſhes, ſaith he,are made; out of the reſidence thereof the courſer; which being formed, they gild or paint, and not after an hundred yeares, but preſently commit unto the furnace: And this, faith | he, is knowne by experience, and more probable then what Odoargus Barboſa hath delivered, that they are made of ſhels, and buried under | earth 4 hundred yearcs : And anſwerable unto all points hereto, is the relation of Linſchotten, a very diligent enquicer in his Orientall Navi- | gations.

Now if any man ettquire, why being ſo commonly made, and in ſo ſhort a time, they are become ſo ſcarce, or not at all to be had , thean- {wer is given by theſe Jaſt Relators, that under great penalties it is for- bidden to carry the firſt ſort aut of the Countrey. And of thoſe ſurely the properties muſt be verified, which by Scaliger and others are aſcri- bed to China difhes, That they admit no poylon, That they ſtrike fire, That they will grow hot no higher then the liquor in them ariſcth, For ſuch as paſſe amongſt us, and under the name ot the fineſt , will onely ſtrike fire, but not diſcover Aconite Mercury, or Atſcnick, but may be uſefull indiſſenteries, and fluxes beyond the other.

$, Laſtly,he muſt have more then Janus.that makes out half of thoſe vertues aſcribed unto ſtones, and their not onely medicall, but Magicall proprieties, which are to be found in Authors of great name. In Plellus, Serapion, Evax, Albertus, Aleazar Marbodeus ; in Maio- Again * [ys, Rueus, Mylus, 20d many other. 1M lin Tbat Lapis Lazul: hath in it a purgative faculty we know, that Ber ri = | zoaris Antidetall, Lapis Judaicus diureticall, Corall Atipileptcll, Againſt th | we will not deny. That Cornelians, Jaſpis, Heliotropes , and bloud- falling- Kones, may be of vertueto thoſe intentions they are implyed, expeti- ſickneſe, | ence and viſible efteRs will make us doubt. But that av Amethiſt pre- vents

vents incbriation, that an Emerald will breake if warne in copulation- That a Diamond laid under the pillow, will betray the incontinency of 2 wife. That a Saphyre is preſervative againſt cachantments z that the fume of an Agath will avert a tempeſt, or the wearing of a Cryſopraſc makeone out of love with gold, 2s ſome have delivered, we arc yet,

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confeſſeto believe, and in that infidelity are likely to end our dayes. And therefore, they which inthe explication of the two Beryls upon the Ephod, or the twelve ſtones inthe Rationall or breaſt-plate of Aa-

Apocalyps, have drawne their fignitications from ſuch as theſc, or de- clared their ſymbolicall verities fuch traditionall falfities , have pony d the ſincerity of their Analogies, or miſunderſtood the myſtery >

tenents concerning weoetables or Plants, which examined, either We dabions. $70 Ef Y

\ Any Mola's and falſe conceptions there are of Mandrakes,the firſt from great Antiquity, conceiveth the Roote thereof re- ſembleth the ſhape of man , which is a conceit notto be made out by ordinaty inſpeRion, or any other eyes, then ſuch as regarding the clouds, behold them in ſhapes conformable to preapprehenfions. Now what ever encouraged the firſt invention, have not bin wanting many wayes of its promotion. The firſt a Catacreſticall and fatre derived fimilitude, it holds with man z that is, in a byfurcation or diviſion of the roote into ewoaparts, which ſome are content to call thighes, whereas notwithſtanding they are oft times three , and when but two commonly ſo complicated and crofled , that men for this de- ceit, are faine to cffeR their defigne into other plants, And as faire a reſemblance is often found in Carrots, Parſenips, Bryony, and many others. There are, I confeſle, divers plancs which carry about them, not onely the ſhape of parts, but alſo of whole animals, bur ſurely not

peruſethe ſignatures of Crollius, or rather the of Porta, and ſtri mer _—_ rem w ies. — —_— to ns, may ealily perceive in very many the ſem- blance is but poſtulatory , and muſt have a more aſſimilatiog phancy then mine to make good thereof.

Illiterate heads have bin led on by the name, which inthe firſt filla-

ble its repreſentation z but others have better obſerved the taws of Bt ,and deduced it from a wordof theſame language, that, 15#%, ſelance, becauſe k dlightethto grow in oblcure and

ron, or thoſe twelve which garniſhed the wall of the holy City inthe

ſhady places, which derivation, although we ſhall not ſtand to main- raine, yet isthe other openly abſurd, anſwerable unto the Ecymologies of many Authors, who often confound ſuch nominall notations. Not

to enquire beyond our owne profeſſion, the Latine Phyftians, which moſt adheared unto the Arabick way , have often failed herein , parti. | | cularly Valeſcus de Taranta a received Phyfitian, in whoſe Philonium

or medicall praRice theſe may be obſerved ; Diarhza ſaith he , qi pluries venit in die. _ la, quift havens pilis, emorrohous, ab emach ſangais & morrhois quad eſt cadere, Lithargia a Litos quod eft obliyia & Targus morbus, Scotomia 4 Scotos quod eſt videre, mias muſca, Opthil mia ab opus Grece quod eft ſuccus , & Talmon quad eft occulue, Paralifir, quaſh lefio partss, Fiftula 4 fos ſonus & ſtelon quod eſt emifi1o, quaſi exwiſſia ſeni vel wocis : which are derivations as ſtrange indeed as the other, and hardly to be paralleld elſewhere, confirming not onely the words ] of one language with another , but creating ſuch as were never yet in any.

The received diſtinRion and common notation by ſexes , hath alſo promoted the conceit, for true it is,that Herbaliſts from ancient times, have thus diſtinguiſhed them; naming that the maſle, whoſe leaves are lighter, and fruit and apples rounder,but this is properly no geherative diviſion, but rather ſome note of diſtinRion in colour , figure or ope- ration, For though Empedocles affirme, there is a mixt, and undivi- ded ſex in vegetables; and Scaliger upon Ariſtotle de plantis, doth fa-

vourably explain that opinion, yet will it not conſiſt with the common | and ordinary acception, nor yct with Ariſtotles definition : for if chat | be maſle which generates in another, that female which procreatesin | it ſelfe , if it be underſtood of ſexes conjoyned, all plants are female, and if of dif joyned, and congreſlive generation, there is no male or fe- male in them atall. | But the Aclas or waine axis, which ſupported this opinion , was daily experience, ard the viſible teſtimony of ſenſe z for many there are in ſeverall parts of Europe who carry about , and ſcil rootes unto ignorant people , which handſomely make out the ſhape of man or woman, but theſc are not productions of Nature, but contrivances of Art, as divers have noted, and Mathiolus plainly deteRted, who-learned this way of trumpery from a —— under his cure | for the Frenchdiſcaſez his words are theſe, and may determine the p_ Sedprofetis vanum & fabuloſum, &c. But that is vaine and fa- ous which ignorant people , and fimple women belceve ; for the roofs which are carried about by impoſtors to deceive unfruirfull wo- men, are made of the roots of Canes, Bryony, and other plants, for in theſe yet freſh and virent , they carve out the figures of men and wo- » firſt ſticking therein the graines of barley ormillet, where they intend the haire ſhould grow, then bury them in ſand, untill the grains | ſhoot

ſhoot forth their roots , which at the longeſt will happen in twenty dayes ; afterward clip and trim thoſe tender ſtrings in the faſhion of beard and other hayrie teguments. All which like other impoſtures once diſcovered is cafily effeRed,and inthe root of white Bryony may be praQtiſed every ſprivg.

What is there fore delivered in favour hereof, by Authors ancient or moderne, muſt have its root in tradition, impoſture, or farre deri- ved fimilitude z ſo may we admit ofthe epithyte of Pythegoras who calls it 4+2+=%@2p9 25, and that of Columella , who tears it ſemsihowe, otherwiſe Albertus mwagaws is not to be received when he affirmerh that Mandrakes ſo repretent mankinde,that diſtinRion of ſex and other accidents are manifeſt therein. And under theſe tearms may thoſe Authors bee admitted , which for this opinion are introduced by Drufius , as David Camius, Moſes filius Namanis, and Abenezra Hiſpanus.

The ſecond affertion concerneth its produRion, "That it naturally groweth under gallowſes and places of execution, ariſing from fat or thy urine that drops from the body of the dead ; a ſtory ſomewhat agree- | able unto the fable of the Serpents teeth ſowed inthe earth by Cad- mus, or rather the birth of Orion from the urine of Jupiter, Mercurie, and Neptune : Now this opinion ſeems grounded onthe former, that is a conceived fimilitude it hath with man; and therefore ffom him in ſome way they would make out its prodaRtion. Which conceit is not only erroneous in the foundation, but injurious unto Philoſophy in the | ſuperſtruQRion , making putrifaRive generations , correſpondent unto ſeminall produQions, and conceiving in equivocall effeRs and univo- call conformity unto the efficient ; which is ſo far from being verified | of animalls intheir corruptive mutations into plants , that they main- | taine not this ſimilitude in their nearer tranſlation into animalls. So when the Oxe corrupteth into Bees, or the Horſes into hornets, they come not forth inthe image of their originalls. So the corrupt and ex+ crementous humors in man are animated into lyce;and we may obſetve that hogs, ſheep, goats, hawkes, hens, and divers other, have one pe- culiar and proper kind of vermine , not reſembling themſelves accor- ding to ſeminall conditions, it carrying a ſetled and confined habitude unto their corruptive originalls; and therefore come not forth in gene- rations erraticall , or different from each other , but ſeem ſpecifically and in regular ſhapes to attend the corruption of their bodycs , as dor more perfeR conceptions, the rule of ſeminall produRions.

The third affirmeth the roots of Mandrakes dec take a noyſe or give a ſhreeke upon eradication , which is indeed ridiculous, and falſe below confute ; ariſing perhaps from a ſmall and ſtridulous noyſe, | which being firmely rooted, it maketh upon divulſion of parts, A flen-

der foundation for ſuch a vaſt conception : tor ſucha noyſe we ſoe- DE Y time

time obſerve in other plants, 10 parſenips, uquoiſh, ceripgium, flags, and others;

The lat concerneth the danger enſuing , that there followes at ha- zard of life to them that pull it up , that {ome evill fate purſues them, and they live not very long after ; therefore the attempt hereof among the Ancients, was not in ordinary way, but as Pliny informeth, when they intended to take up the root of this plant , they tooke the wind thereof, and with a ſword deſcribing three circles about it they digged it up, leoking toward the Weſt,a conceit not only injurious unto truth, and confutable by dayly experience, but ſomewhat derogatory unto the providence of God, that is not only to impoſe ſo deſtruRtive a qua- lity en any plant, but conceive a vegetable whoſe partsare uſcfull unto| many, ſhould in the only taking up prove mortall unto any. Tothink | he ſuffereth the poyſon of Nubia to be gathered, Napcllus, Aconite and Thorato be eradicated, yet this not to he moved. That hee per- mitteth Arſenick and minerall poyſons to be forced from the bowells of thecarth, yet not this from che ſurface thereof. This were to intro- | duce a ſecond forbidden truir, and inhance the fiiſt malediQion ; ma- king it not only mortall for Adam to tafte the one, but capitall unto his | poſterity to eradicate or dig up the other.

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