lifting power of loadstones, 86, 89, 97.
lily of the compass, 117, 152, 165, 177.
liquids, electrical attraction of, 55.
attraction on surface of, 57.
Livio Sanuto, 5, 153, 167.
loadstone armed and unarmed, 86, 87, 88.
as medicine, 32.
in plasters, 33.
rock, the, 5, 6, 18, 116, 152.
various names of, 11.
colours of, 9, 10, 27.
various sources of, 8, 25, 32.
longitude, magnetick finding at, 166.
long magnets, advantage of, 82, 83, 99, 101
Lucania, fall of meteorick stones in, 26.
Lucas Gauricus, 7.
Lucretius, 2, 3, 8, 49, 61.
Lusitanus, Amatus, 2.
Lynschoten, Hugo van, *iiij.
agnes, μάγνης, μαγνῆτις, 11.
Magnesia, 8.
Magnetick axis of terrella, 81, 212.
axis of earth, 13, 81, 212.
horizon, 80.
meridian, 79, 152.
mountains or rocks, 5, 6, 18, 116, 152.
islands, 5, 153, 161.
motions, the five, 45.
Magnus, Olaus, 5, 6.
Mahometes Aractensis, 234, 237.
Mahomet's tomb, 2.
Manardus, Joannes, 35.
Marbodæus Gallus, 2, 7.
Marcellus Empiricus, 2.
Marco Polo (Paulus Venetus), 4.
mariners' compass. See compass.
Mars, saffron of (Crocus Martis), 34, 91.
Marsiglio Ficino. See Ficinus.
Martin Cortes, 5, 116, 152.
matter and form, 52, 65.
Matthæus Silvaticus, 3.
Matthiolus, Petrus, 2, 3.
Mauritanus, Gilgil, 19.
Mauritanus, Serapio, 2, 6.
Maurolycus, Franciscus, 5, 42, 153, 180.
medicinal use of iron, 33.
of loadstone, 32.
Medina, Pedro de, 166.
Menelaus, 234, 237.
meridian, magnetick, 79, 152, 163.
Merula, Gaudentius, 7.
meteorick stones, falls of, 26, 27.
mica (or muscovy stone), 11, 48, 52.
μικρόγη. See terrella.
moisture stops electrick action, 53, 56.
Montagnana, B., 35.
Montanus, Arias, 4.
Montanus, Joannes Baptista, 2.
Moors, Serapio and the, 6.
mountains, magnetick, 5, 6, 18, 116, 152.
movement of trepidation, 117.
Musa Brasavolus, Antonius, 2.
muscovy stone, 11, 48, 52. See also mica.
myths of the magnet, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 18, 32, 63, 107, 109, 110, 111, 116, 143, 153, 228
motions, the various magnetical, 46.
ames of amber, 47.
names of the loadstone, 11.
names given to the magnetick poles, 15, 115, 125, 129.
Nicander of Colophon, 8, 9.
Nicetas, 214.
Nicolas Copernicus, 212, 214, 216, 231, 237, 238, 240
Nicolaus Myrepsus, or Præpositas, 33.
non-electrick bodies, 51, 55.
Nonius, Petrus (Pedro Nuñez), 166.
Norman, Robert, 5, 8, 153, 161, 162.
supposes a point respective, 5, 153, 161, 162.
his Newe Attractive, 8.
discoverer of the dip, 8.
Nova Zembla, 152, 179.
ffusius, Jofrancus, 46.
Olaus Magnus, 5, 6.
opal becomes electrical, 48.
orbe of virtue, 76, 96, 191, 205
orbes of planets, 208, 215.
Oribasius, 2.
Orpheus, 11, 61, 209.
Oviedus, Gonzalus (Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo y Valdès), 4.
antarbes, 111.
Paolo (Paulus Æginæ), 35.
Paolo, Rev. Maestro (Fra Paolo Sarpi), 6
Paolo the Venetian (Marco Polo), 4.
Paracelsus (Bombast von Hohenheim).
asserts the stars to attract iron, 3.
his emplastrum of loadstone, 33.
his method of strengthening loadstones, 93.
pearls are not electrick, 51, 55.
Pedro de Medina, 166.
percussion excites verticity, 139.
Peregrinus, Peter,
his book, 5.
on cause of magnetick direction, 5, 116, 153.
on perpetual motion engine, 107.
affirms a terrella to revolve daily, 223.
