loadstone

How To Use loadstone In A Sentence

• Thus, the power of drawing iron is one of the ideas of the complex one of that substance we call a loadstone; and a power to be so drawn is a part of the complex one we call iron: which powers pass for inherent qualities in those subjects. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
• Swift had visited the Royal Society where he would have seen the Gilbertian terrella described in the catalogue as “an orbicular loadstone, about four inches and 1/2 in Diameter.” COSMIC VOYAGES
• To-morrow we shall arrive at a mountain of black stone, called loadstone: the current is now bearing us violently toward it, and the ships will fall in pieces, and every nail in them will fly to the mountain, and adhere to it; for God hath given to the loadstone a secret property by virtue of which everything of iron is attracted toward it. The Arabian Nights Their Best-known Tales
• But this kind of science be like loadstone again, drawing on continuous quest of people for several a hundred years with thorough of research.
• In the Galileo Museum in Florence there is a terrella twenty-seven inches in diameter, of loadstone from Elba, constructed for Cosmo de 'Medici. Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 24: September/October 1663
• To-morrow, by the end of the day, we shall come to a mountain of black stone, called loadstone, for thither the currents bear us perforce. The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume I
• To this round loadstone he gave the name of terrella -- that is, little earth. A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume II: The Beginnings of Modern Science
• The ancient Egyptians called the loadstone the bone of Haroeri, and iron the bone of Typhon. Atlantis : the antediluvian world
• They lit their pipes, put a specimen of the coal on the table, and made it a kind of loadstone of thought and conversation. The Gilded Age A tale of today
• Certain bodies -- as, for instance, the iron ore called loadstone, the earth itself, and pieces of steel which have been subjected to certain treatment -- are found to possess the following properties, and are called magnets. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science