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dener of che sina ll. Parricles oF Marrer torvards the, aster it is once excired by Rubbins and Chatins.
Autractins Body.
2. Our Famous Siibert. Sir X. Disty, Cassendus
Dr. Bromn, and many ochers, suppole char on rub-
bins or chatine, che Flectrick BodY is made roemit
Kays or Files ot an unctuous Nacure, Which when
and doth noc cease in an Instant.
6. Flectrical Bodies auract all chines indisterent.
ly, Wvhereas the Magnet deams oyly tron and
Sreel.
cher come eo be condented and cooled by the AM-
7. Our Excellent Nacuralis suspended a sine
biene Air, do lolecheir Asiration, and chen Crink large piece of very Electrical Amber by a Silken
back a5ain inco the Body trom whence cher Cally d Phread, and ihen had onc end ot ir rubbed Arons
OuF, and by thac means do carrr alone ith them ly on a licrle Custrion, and then he found chac when
Tuch lighe aud (mall Bodies ashappen e0 be Fastned che Amber as made ro hans persectir ac rest, il
ox Rickine co their Furcher ends. Gassendus chintes
also char chese unctuous PMuria beins emicred aII
manner of ars, do decussare trequenely, or crols
one anocher; and by chis means do take the betrer
trold oF Strams, (8c. into whose Pores ches insinuate
Themselres.
3. Des Carrez, noc beinss able to imagine char l0
solid a Body as Clals was capable ot emirring FF-
Auria; (tho ris certain chat tvo pieces ot Clals
rubbed one against anocher will send Forth an un-
pleasins Odour, Which must consist ot mareria
FMuria) he had recourse ro the Operarion oF his
Materia Prima For the Solurion ol Electricity; bue
tre speaks oF ic doubringlr himselt, and unin-
cellisibly co the Reader, as it appears rome; there
Fore L Mallreter you ro the Place ir selF, Where il
vou chint ic worth wrhile, rou may see whac he
Taich ac larse. Vid. Cartes Princip. Lib. 4. Ch. 184
P. 210.
MP. Bople, in order to prove Flectricies co be
Oualier which hach, litee all orhers, in Nacural
Bodies, a Mechanical Original, hach siven us che
followins Obserrations and Experimenes abour chis
effect; trom erhence a verr 800d suels may be
made, ho Electrical Aerraction is produced, viz.
1. Thac Electrical Bodies do nor at all, or at best
but very rarely attract, buc when chey are marm d
and cherebr Sollicired co emir E.Puria more copi
CuRy.
the Cuttion wras brouxhe near ic, tho noc to touch
T, it vould plainsy makce the Amber rend corards
ir, and follon ic. From Wwhence it plainly appears.
hac ocher Bodies can draw ex move che Llectrick
ones, 25 well as ther ochers; and thac ic is by ac.
2. Thar chele Bodies warmed only by the Fire,
do nor actract (0 forcibly as cher will wvtien heaced
ciderie only, and nor trom necestier, thac ihe (maII
actracted Bodies βoro che Electrick one.
by rubbins; tho it cher are Ars warmed ac the
Fire, aud then rubbed atterwards, ther will ar-
tract most spccdily aril porvertully. So chac HIcat
Ceems necellarr in general ro put che parts into Agi
ration; and rubbine or chatins in parricular, 10
sire them cheir most proper Modificarion.
8. By many repeared Fxperimenrs he Pound chis
Electrical Oualiis eo be Producible and DC.
Aructible.
9. He Cound allo char a piece ot Amber did len.
sibly acrract wwhen the Air ivas pumped ouc of che
Receirer; Which contirms the Flyporhesis oF chole
chac suppose actual serines or livrle unctuous Rays
ro80out oF che Electrical Body.
10. He tound also char atter an Electrical Boc)
had been vellrutbed, there was a cerrain Nick
of Time in which chelighe Body rould instead ot
beins attracted, be actually driven awar tromche
Electrical Body, by che PMuria goins bristely our
andnor vec recurnins again; Which much contirms
che Hypochetis ot Gilberi, Dieby, Bromn, ec. men-
rioned in N. 2.
FLECTNTARV, is a Medicine oF a Consistence
chicker rhan a Sytup or a Linctus, and composed
OFhard chines reduced ro Powder, and accurarely
mix d wich Syrups, Conserres, Floner, (90
ELFOIT, is a Wric Judicial, char lierh For him
chac hath recorer d Debr or Dammages in che
Kinss Courr against one nor able in his G00ds 10
Saristre, and direeted ro che Sheris, commandine
him char he make deliverr oF haltche P’arries L ands
Or Fenemenes, and allhis 600d5, Oxen and Beacts
Ofche Plo excepted.
ELEMENTS, is a Word uled bY Nacurat Phi
losophers in the lame senle ulually as Principles;
and by rhe Elemenes aud Principles, orascher lome-
rimes call chem, the Elementary Principles, oF ana-
3, Tersian (as he calls ic) ox mipins, is almost cural or mix d Body, chey mean thole simple Parti-
universally necellarr, 25 vell as Acrririon or Rub-) cles ouc of wrhich the mix dis composed, and into
bing co produce Electricier; For chereby thesceams which ris ultimarely resolvable.
Or LiMuria can the berrer ser our, when chere is no-
chins cosop, up or choak the Pores oF rhe auractins
Bod7.
4. The Magnerical FMuria will perrade aII
manner ot Bodies Freely; ver the incerposition ot
the Anest Linnen or Paper Wwill hinder che Opera-
tion oE alI Electrical Parricles; Wnich scems tO
contum cheir beins Comethins oC an unctuous N2
Ture.
The Nrord comes trom L, M, NI, chree OFthe L et
cers ot che alphabet; and is allo Frequenty used
For the Airst Principles or Rudimenes oF any Science.
Thus the Propolitions oE Fuclide are called his Ele-
menis, Decause cher concain che firH Principles o
Geometer.
ELEOSACHAROM, is Susar incorporated
rith some Drops ot distilled Oil, 10 as to make the
Dilmore casie and asiceable 10 be twallowed by
the PatienE.
FLFPHANCLaSIS Arobum, Ot WChthebrects
eale nochine, bucche trabians do trequeny, is
a-scin ro aVarix or crooked Svellins in che Veins
Souch Windbloi, as Kircher asserrs trom his onn and procecds trom thence, and is onir a Tumour
Eixperience. Puc ic alvays continues lome rime in ihe Feer. Avicenna treais oE elis Dillemiper.
vrere
5. This ERect is very much weaken d if che
Ncacher be thick and cloudy, and especially if che,