loadstones

On this occasion, she witnessed several experiments of "colours, loadstones, microscopes" and was "full of admiration", although according to Pepys, her dress was "so antic and her deportment so unordinary" that the fellows were made strangely uneasy.

The Royal Society's lost women scientists Richard Holmes 2010

Euripes, and a great rock of loadstones, which may cause the needle in the compass still to bend that way, and what should be the true cause of the variation of the compass, [2998] is it a magnetical rock, or the pole-star, as Cardan will; or some other star in the bear, as

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Now, by the hidden and admirable power of the loadstones, the steel plates were put into motion, and consequently the gates were slowly drawn; however, not always, but when the said loadstone on the outside was removed, after which the steel was freed from its power, the two bunches of scordium being at the same time put at some distance, because it deadens the magnes and robs it of its attractive virtue.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

Likewise loadstones of prodigious virtue, and other rare stones, both natural and artificial.

The New Atlantis 2002

I perceived that the parts of the gates that joined on the inside were covered with steel, and just where the said gates touched when they were opened I saw two square Indian loadstones of a bluish hue, well polished, and half a span broad, mortised in the temple wall.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

I perceived that the parts of the gates that joined on the inside were covered with steel, and just where the said gates touched when they were opened I saw two square Indian loadstones of a bluish hue, well polished, and half a span broad, mortised in the temple wall.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

Now, by the hidden and admirable power of the loadstones, the steel plates were put into motion, and consequently the gates were slowly drawn; however, not always, but when the said loadstone on the outside was removed, after which the steel was freed from its power, the two bunches of scordium being at the same time put at some distance, because it deadens the magnes and robs it of its attractive virtue.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

Several fine experiments were shown her of colours, loadstones, microscopes, and of liquors; among others, of one that did, while she was there, turn a piece of roasted mutton into pure blood, which was very rare.

VIRTUOSO MARJORIE HOPE NICOLSON 1968

"The Selwyns I do not expect soon at Richmond for the Carlisles are going to Cheltenham; but so many loadstones draw him, that I who have no attraction seldom see him."

George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life Helen [Editor] Clergue

'Near that isle there are ships without nails of iron or bonds, on account of the rocks of adamants (loadstones), for they are all abundant there in that sea that it is marvellous to speak of, and if

Southern Arabia Mabel Bent