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 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. London, magnetick variation at, 154, 163. 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, 11. Magnesia, 8. Magnetick axis of terrella, 81, 212. Magnus, Albertus. See Albertus. 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.

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. . 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. Norumbega, the city of, 154. 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). Parmenides, 208. pearls are not electrick, 51, 55. Pedro de Medina, 166. percussion excites verticity, 139. Peregrinus, Peter,