Letter of Petrus Peregrinus on the Magnet A.D. 1269, translated by Brother Arnold
by active 13th century de Maricourt Pierre
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- Author
- Pierre, de Maricourt, active 13th century
- Title
- The Letter of Petrus Peregrinus on the Magnet, A.D. 1269
- Credits
- Produced by deaurider, Stephen Hutcheson, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- QC: Science: Physics
- Subject
- Magnetism -- Early works to 1800
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 50524
- Release Date
- November 21, 2015
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.THE LETTER OF PETRUS PEREGRINUS ON THE MAGNET, A.D. 1269
- 2.INTRODUCTORY
- 3.PART I
- 4.THE LETTER OF PEREGRINUS — PART I CHAPTER I PURPOSE OF THIS WORK — CHAPTER II QUALIFICATIONS OF THE EXPERIMENTER — CHAPTER III CHARACTERISTICS OF A GOOD LODESTONE — CHAPTER IV HOW TO DISTINGUISH THE POLES OF A LODESTONE — CHAPTER V HOW TO DISCOVER THE POLES OF A LODESTONE AND HOW TO TELL WHICH IS NORTH AND WHICH SOUTH — CHAPTER VI HOW ONE LODESTONE ATTRACTS ANOTHER — CHAPTER VII HOW IRON TOUCHED BY A LODESTONE TURNS TOWARDS THE POLES OF THE WORLD — CHAPTER VIII HOW A LODESTONE ATTRACTS IRON — CHAPTER IX WHY THE NORTH POLE OF ONE LODESTONE ATTRACTS THE SOUTH POLE OF ANOTHER AND VICE VERSA — CHAPTER X AN INQUIRY INTO THE CAUSE OF THE NATURAL VIRTUE OF THE LODESTONE
- 5.PART II — PART II CHAPTER I THE CONSTRUCTION OF AN INSTRUMENT FOR MEASURING THE AZIMUTH OF THE SUN THE MOON OR ANY STAR ON THE HORIZON — CHAPTER II THE CONSTRUCTION OF A BETTER INSTRUMENT FOR THE SAME PURPOSE — CHAPTER III THE ART OF MAKING A WHEEL OF PERPETUAL MOTION
- 6.NOTES — EARLY REFERENCES TO THE MARINER’S COMPASS
- 7.Footnotes
- 8.Transcriber’s Notes
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