it with fayre water, setting it in some place where it may
rest quiet, and out of the winde. This done, cut the Corke
circumspectly, by little and little, untill the wyre with the Corke be
so fitted, that it may remain under the superficies of the water two or
three inches, both ends of the wyer lying levell with the superficies
of the water, without ascending or descending, like to the beame of a
payre of ballance beeing equalie poysed at both ends.

"Then take out of the same the wyer without mooving the Corke, and
touch it with the _Stone_, the one end with the South of the _Stone_,
and the other end with the North, and then set it againe in the water,
and you shall see it presentlie turne it selfe upon his owne Center,
shewing the aforesay'd _Declining_ propertie, without descending to the
bottome, as by reason it should, if there were any _Attraction_
downewards, the lower part of the water being neerer that point, then
the superficies thereof."

[240] PAGE 212, LINE 7. Page 212, line 8. _ex altera parte._--The sense
seems to require _et altera parte_, but all editions read _ex_.

[241] PAGE 213, LINE 1. Page 213, line 2. The passage here quoted from
Dominicus Maria Ferrariensis, otherwise known as the astronomer Novara,
does not occur in any known writing of that famous man. It is, however,
quoted as being by Novara in at least three other writings of the same
epoch. See the _Tabulae secvndorum mobilium coelestium_ of Maginus (Venet.,
1585, p. 29, line 19 to p. 30, line 11); the _Eratosthenes Batavvs_ of
Willebrord Snell (Lugd. Batav., 1617, pp. 40-42); and the _Almagesti novi
(Pars Posterior)_ of Riccioli (Bonon., 1651, p. 348). The original document
appears to have perisht. See a notice by M. Curtze in Boncompagni's
_Bullettino di Bibliografia_, T. iv., April, 1871.

[242] PAGE 214, LINE 26. Page 214, line 31. _Philolaus Pythagoricus._

"Philolaues a le premier dit que la terre se meut en cercle; d'autres
disent que c'est Nicetas de Syracuse."

"Les uns pretendent que le terre est immobile; mais Philolaues le
pythagoricien dit qu'elle se meut circulairement autour du feu
(central) et suivant un cercle oblique, comme le soleil et la
lune."--(Chaignet, _Pythagore et la Philosophie pythagoricienne_,
Paris, 1873.)

It appears that the first of these _dicta_ is taken from Diogenes Laert.,
viii. 85; and the second from Plutarch,