, in 1820, of the real connexion between magnetism and the electric
current.

[146] PAGE 60, LINE 25. Page 60, line 31. _Coitionem dicimus, non
attractionem._--See the remarks, at the outset of these Notes, on Gilbert's
definitions of words.

[147] PAGE 60, LINE 33. Page 61, line 1. _Orpheus in suis
carminibus._--This passage is in the chapter [Greek: Lithika] of Orpheus,
verses 301 to 327. See Note to p. 11, line 19.

[148] PAGE 61, LINE 15. Page 61, line 19. _Platonis in Timaeo opinio_.--The
passage runs (edition Didot, vol. ii., p. 240, or Stephanus, p. 80, C.):

[Greek: Kai de kai ta ton hudaton panta rheumata eti de ta ton keraunon
ptomata kai ta thaumazomena elektron peri tes helxeos kai ton Herakleion
lithon, panton touton holke men ouk estin oudeni pote, to de kenon einai
meden periothein te hauta tauta eis allela, to te diakrinomena kai
sunkrinomena pros ten hauton diameibomena hedran hekasta ienai panta,
toutois tois pathemasi pros allela sumplechtheisi tethaumatourgemena toi
kata tropon zetounti phanesetai.]

[149] PAGE 61, LINE 30. Page 61, line 38. The English version of the lines
of Lucretius is from Busby's translation.

[150] PAGE 62, LINE 5. {45} Page 62, line 7. _Iohannes Costaeus
Laudensis._--Joannes Costa, of Lodi, edited Galen and Avicenna. He also
wrote a _De universali stirpium Natura_ (Aug. Taurin., 1578).

[151] PAGE 63, LINE 3. Page 63, line 4. _Cornelius Gemma 10.
Cosmocrit._--This refers to the work _De Naturae Divinis Characterismis ...
Libri ii. Avctore D. Corn. Gemma_ (Antv., 1575, lib. i., cap. vii., p.
123).

"Certe vt a magnete insensiles radij ferrum ad se attrahunt, ab echineide
paruo pisciculo sistuntur plena nauigia, a catoblepa spiritu non homines
solum, sed & alta serpentum genera interimuntur, & saxa dehiscunt."

See also Kircher's _Magneticum Naturae Regnum_ (Amsterodami, 1667, p. 172),
Sectio iv., cap. iii., De Magnete Navium, quae Remora seu Echeneis dicitur.
See the note to p. 7, line 21.

[152] PAGE 63, LINE 6. Page 63, line 7. _Guilielmus Puteanus._--Puteanus
(Du Puys) wrote a work _De Medicamentorum quomodocunque Purgantium
Facultatibus_, Libri ii. (Lugd., 1552), in which he talks vaguely about the
substantial "form" of the magnet, and quotes Aristotle and Galen.

[153] PAGE 63, LINE 21. Page 63, line 25. _Baptistae Portae._--The passage
in the translation is quoted from the English version of 1658, pp. 191,
192.

[154] PAGE 64, LINE 4. Page 64, line 9. _Erud