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Natural magick (1658)

Porta, Giambattista della, 1535?-1615 · London : Printed for Thomas Young, and Samuel Speed, and are to be sold at the three Pigeons, and at the Angel in St. Paul's Church-yard · leaf 207

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will prefefctly be ©f another property and vertue# and will be enemies one to the other : which is a great wonder s for thel'c two points, when they were joined together , had the fam ■ force of turning to the pole; but now being parted alunder , one will turn to the North, theotherto the South,… … miration, that the points GH vyhild the done was but one, were but one: as being agreed together, they had the fame forces; but when the done is divided, each part will hold itsvertiie, and be quite contra¬ ry and at enmity : for G alwayes turns to the South, and H to rh : Norths and eve¬ ry bit…

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