INDEX OF CHAPTERS.
Chap. 4. | Concerning the length of a versorium convenient for declination on a terrella. | |
Chap. 5. | That declination does not arise from the attraction of the loadstone, but from a disposing and rotating influence. | |
Chap. 6. | On the proportion of declination to latitude, and the cause of it. | |
Chap. 7. | Explanation of the diagram of the rotation of a magnetick needle. | |
Chap. 8. | Diagram of the rotation of a magnetick needle, indicating magnetical declination in all latitudes, and from the rotation and declination, the latitude itself. | |
Chap. 9. | Demonstration of direction, or of variation from the true direction, at the same time with declination, by means of only a single motion in water, due to the disposing and rotating virtue. | |
Chap. 10. | On the variation of the declination. | |
Chap. 11. | On the essential magnetick activity sphærically effused. | |
Chap. 12. | Magnetick force is animate, or imitates life; and in many things surpasses human life, while this is bound up in the organick body. | |
Book 6. | ||
Chap. 1. | On the globe of the earth, the great magnet. | |
Chap. 2. | The Magnetick axis of the Earth persists invariable. | |
Chap. 3. | On the magnetick diurnal revolution of the Earth's globe, as a probable assertion against the time-honoured opinion of a Primum Mobile. | |
Chap. 4. | That the Earth moves circularly. | |
Chap. 5. | Arguments of those denying the Earth's motion, and their confutation. | |
Chap. 6. | On the cause of the definite time of an entire rotation of the Earth. | |
Chap. 7. | On the primary magnetick nature of the Earth, whereby its poles are parted from the poles of the Ecliptick. | |
Chap. 8. | On the Præcession of the Æquinoxes, from the magnetick motion of the poles of the Earth, in the Arctick & Antarctick circle of the Zodiack. | |
Chap. 9. | On the anomaly of the Præcession of the Æquinoxes, & of the obliquity of the Zodiack. | |
Index | (not in original TOC) |
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