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Book I

William Gilbert

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  1. Chapter 1
  2. Chapter 2: Magnet Stone, of what kind it is, and its
  3. Chapter 3: The Loadstone has parts distinct in their natural
  4. Chapter 4: Which pole of the stone is the Boreal: & how it is
  5. Chapter 5: Loadstone seems to attract Loadstone when in natural
  6. Chapter 6: Loadstone attracts the ore of iron, as well as iron
  7. Chapter 7: What Iron is, and of what substance,
  8. Chapter 8: In what countries and districts iron
  9. Chapter 9: Iron ore attracts iron ore.
  10. Chapter 10: *Iron ore has poles, and acquires them, and settles
  11. Chapter 11: *Wrought Iron, not excited by a loadstone,
  12. Chapter 12: *A long piece of Iron, even though not excited by a
  13. Chapter 13: *Wrought iron has in itself certain parts Boreal and Austral:
  14. Chapter 14: Concerning other powers of loadstone, and its
  15. Chapter 15: The Medicinal Virtue of Iron.
  16. Chapter 16: That loadstone & iron ore are the same, but iron an
  17. Chapter 17: That the globe of the earth is magnetick, & a magnet; &