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Lexicon Technicum: Or, An Universal English Dictionary Of Arts And Sciences, fol. -

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  1. Aure, 25 al0 by Rust, Wet, (90. and max be s beins accurare and fine, is spoiled by che tude
  2. quire destroyca by Lire.
  3. Experiments os ehe Nacure and Proverties os
  4. the MagneT.
  5. 2. MIP. Boyle Found chat br hearine a Magnet
  6. red hor, it could be spcedity deprired ot iIS A1-
  7. tractive Oualitu.
  8. 2. IE a Loadstone Be heared red hor, and
  9. and riolene Actacks oF cheFire: Bucthis mistur
  10. Asene by workins uxon Tron, Potcens and opens
  11. the Pores oF che Mecal (wrhich is harder Than
  12. Tron Ore;) Po thar it becemes capable oF beins
  13. Pecraded by che Magnerical Parricles, and by
  14. chac means fains a Vertical duality.
  15. 6. Mr. Boyle Tound chat by heacins a piece oF
  16. Fnelist Oter red hoc, and placins ic ro cool in a
  17. proper Posture, ic plainly sain a Magnerick
  18. then cooled cirher wich ies South Pole to the (POWci.
  19. NTorch, in a Florizoncal Position, or wich its Souch
  20. 7. The Came Noble Gentleman Pound, thar
  21. Pole donnvards in a Perpendicular onc, ic will an Excellent Loadstone of his omn, havins lain
  22. chanse its Polarir, che Souch Pole becomins che almost a Zear in an Inconrenient Posture, hac
  23. Northern one, aud vice versas
  24. ils Virtue (0 impaired, chac he ac tirst choughe
  25. 2. By Applyins che Poles oF a verr (mall Tome Body had sor ar ic and spoiled ic by Fire.
  26. Fraement ot a Loadstone ro che oppolite vigorous
  27. 8. IF a Nceale be Wvell Touchd on 2 800d
  28. ones of a 800d larser Marnet, Mr. Boyle Found Loadstone, ris lenomn ic ill, wten duly poised
  29. he could spcedily chanse che Poles oF che Fras- Poine Norch and South; buc il ic hare one con-
  30. mene; but he could noc efsect ic in a Fragment Erarr Touch oF che lame Stone, ic will immedi-
  31. thac mas considerabls bisser, cho herried many acels be deprived ot chac Faculer; and by ano-
  32. FIOurS.
  33. 3. Hle obserred, thac Well Tempered and
  34. Flardned Tron Tools, when heaced by Ruririon,
  35. Furing, Filing, C9c. cher would, wrhile warm,
  36. cher such Touch it will hare ies Poles quire chan-
  37. sed; (0 chac che Fnd wtich betore poinced
  38. Vorch, Mall non point Southward.
  39. 9. Dr Pomer and Mr. Boyle boch cried, chacaF-
  40. Accract chin Filings or Chips of Tron and Stcel, cer a red hor Tron had sain d a Verticity by beine
  41. but noc wrhen cold. Zec L remember OncC +O
  42. trave seen my TelF, and tried, chat a piece oF a
  43. File iwtrich was in che Flands OF NIr. Parmell Che
  44. vell heaced and cooled Norch and Souch, anc
  45. then also hammered ac che Fnds, chis Virtue
  46. vould immediarelr be destrored by 2 Or3 blows
  47. Spectacle maker, did rerain such an Auractire oF a Arons Flaminer smarely siven about che
  48. Oualier, chat ic rould cake up and keep suspend-
  49. ed che KeY oF a Cabinet oe Fscritoire, and
  50. necded vo Atricion 10 excie chis Magneticat
  51. Virrue.
  52. midele ot iC.
  53. 10. MII. Boyle Tound chac by drawins che back
  54. OE a Knise, or longpiece ot Sicet Wire, (8c. 0.
  55. ver che Pole ot a Loadstone leisurelr, once Or
  56. 4. The Tron Bars oF Windons which hare divers rimes, beginnins che Morion From chC F.
  57. lons Hood in an erect Position, do ero perma- quator or midale ofthesione, tomards chePole
  58. neney Magnetical, rhe lorver Finds oF Tuch BarS
  59. beinsthe Norch Poles, and che upper che Sou-
  60. chern: For accordins r0 Laws oF Magnetism,
  61. ve find the lorver ends ot such Bars rill drive
  62. awas che Norch end oE a poised Necdle, and wilt
  63. atrract the Souchern; Which Mews, chac by che
  64. continual passase of che Subrile Magnerical Par-
  65. che Knise er Wire rill accordinsly Actract onc
  66. end ot a poised Magnerical Accdle; bur it vou
  67. cake anocher Rnise or Wire, and chrust it leilure.
  68. ly orer che Pole, Trom che Pole tomards the F.
  69. quator or midale of the Fquator, ihis Knite
  70. Mall expel or drire awas che Came end ot che
  71. Necdle, Which che Former Knise vould Atcract:
  72. cicles chro them, cher are cumed inco a kind of Wrhich Experimen makes ic very probable, chat
  73. Masuet Themlelres
  74. che Operation oFche Magnet depends on the Llux
  75. 5. IF a Bar oF Tron chac hach noc long A00d in of Pome fine Parricles which 80 our ac one l’ole
  76. an crected Posture, be ontr held Perpendicular- then round aboue and in 29ain atthe other.
  77. IV, ies servet ee d ie Horch Pole, and
  78. II. Because ir is one ot che Oniversal LaWs
  79. Auract che Souch Poine oF a Touchd Necdle: OF Nacure, Thac Action and Reaction are alvays
  80. Buc then chis Vistue is transiene, and will MifE equat: Theretore ris plain the Tron must AIract
  81. 25 ron Inverrhe Bar, For the orher end when the Magnet, as much as rhac dorhthe Tron: And
  82. held lovermost, will prelener beconte the North
  83. Pole; Wheretore, in order ro render the clalies
  84. (0 vou may casily experiment ic ro be in Fact.
  85. it ron place a Magnet or piece ot Tron on a piece
  86. oF Verricier permanent in an Tron Bar, ic mustre- of Corkr, (0 a5 chac ic mar svim freelr in the
  87. main a tons time in a proper Position. Bur che lWVarer; For chen rou willsce, chat which (oerer
  88. Fire will producechus etect in a Vets Mo; rou hold in rour Fand, ill dean the orhex ro-
  89. Lrom all Which LxPCTIeHES, EIS PlaI (a3
  90. cooled in an erect POMION, Or directr NOrth depend uxon Mechanical Principles. AS 2IIO, ThaL
  91. and South. Nar, ic hach been obserred otten, there is such a Thins 25 che Magnetism of thc
  92. thac even Tones and Fire Fortes, by beins otcen Farth; Or char chere are Magnetical Pantieles
  93. heared, and then Pet ro cool in a Position near 10 (Wvtich continually are passins trom Polero Pole:
  94. crect, hare saned chis Magnecical Properer.
  95. Duc MIr. Nemron demonstrates, thac Gravier i5 2
  96. TheReason oF Whieh verr disterent ERects oF vers disserent chins trom Magnetism; since the
  97. the Fire on 2 Maenet, and on LrOn, LI. Boste,
  98. Former is alvars as che Ouaneier oF Mattex AE.
  99. avich his uluat Modestr, susgects i0 be chis: tracted, buc Magnerism by no means (0.
  100. Thar che peculiar L’exture et Coheiturion by
  101. NII. Zoblot Protesor oF the Machemarictes in
  102. rohicte a Magnos dissero hem common tion Dre, ihe Frencb Aeadems ot Paircins, Cc. hach scundo
  103. For 25 u will immediacels deprire a LoactoneDE Wards II.
  104. IES Accractire POrVer, Or ChansC IIS FOlCS, (25 in
  105. Exper. T. 2.) lo i illas loon sire à l’erticurle
  106. a Bar oF Tron, il beins heared red hoc, ic bc NIr. Boyle concludes) Thât Magnetism doch mucti

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