INDEX OF CHAPTERS.
| Preface to the candid Reader, studious of the Magnetick Philosophy. (not in original TOC) | ||
| To the most Eminent and Learned Man Dr. William Gilbert (not in original TOC) | ||
| Interpretation of certain words. (not in original TOC) | ||
| Book i. | ||
| Chap. 1. | Ancient and modern writings on the Loadstone, with certain matters of mention only, various opinions, & vanities. | |
| Chap. 2. | Magnet Stone, of what kind it is, and its discovery. | |
| Chap. 3. | The loadstone has parts distinct in their natural power, & poles conspicuous for their property. | |
| Chap. 4. | Which pole of the stone is the Boreal: and how it is distinguished from the austral. | |
| Chap. 5. | Loadstone seems to attract loadstone when in natural position: but repels it when in a contrary one, and brings it back to order. | |
| Chap. 6. | Loadstone attracts the ore of iron, as well as iron proper, smelted & wrought. | |
| Chap. 7. | What iron is, and of what substance, and its uses. | |
| Chap. 8. | In what countries and districts iron originates. | |
| Chap. 9. | Iron ore attracts iron ore. | |
| Chap. 10. | Iron ore has poles, and acquires them, and settles itself toward the poles of the universe. | |
| Chap. 11. | Wrought iron, not excited by a loadstone, draws iron. | |
| Chap. 12. | A long piece of Iron (even though not excited by a loadstone) settles itself toward North & South. | |
| Chap. 13. | Wrought iron has in itself certain parts Boreal & Austral: a magnetick vigour, verticity, and determinate vertices or poles. | |
| Chap. 14. | Concerning other powers of loadstone, & its medicinal properties. | |
| Chap. 15. | The medicinal virtue of iron. | |
| Chap. 16. | That loadstone & iron ore are the same, but iron an extract from both, as other metals are from their own ores; & that all magnetick virtues, though weaker, exist in the ore itself & in smelted iron. | |
| Chap. 17. | That the globe of the earth is magnetick, & a magnet; & how in our hands the magnet stone has all the primary forces of the earth, while the earth by the same powers remains constant in a fixed direction in the universe. | |
| Book 2. | ||
| Chap. 1. | On Magnetick Motions. | |
| Chap. 2. | On the Magnetick Coition, and first on the attraction of Amber, or more truly, on the attaching of bodies to Amber. | |
| Chap. 3. | Opinions of others on Magnetick Coition, which they call Attraction. | |
| Chap. 4. | On Magnetick Force & Form, what it is; and on the cause of the Coition. | |
| Chap. 5. | How the Power dwells in the Loadstone. | |
| Chap. 6. | How magnetick pieces of Iron and smaller loadstones conform themselves to a terrella & to the earth itself, and by them are disposed. | |
| Chap. 7. | On the Potency of the Magnetick Virtue, and on its nature capable of spreading out into an orbe. | |
| Chap. 8. | On the geography of the Earth, and of the Terrella. | |
| Chap. 9. | On the Æquinoctial Circle of the Earth and of a Terrella. | |
| Chap. 10. | Magnetick Meridians of the Earth. | |
| Chap. 11. | Parallels. | |
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