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Definition of Loadstones
1. loadstone [n] - See also: loadstone
Lexicographical Neighbors of Loadstones
Literary usage of Loadstones
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Edinburgh Philosophical Journal by Royal Society of Edinburgh, Wernerian Natural History Society, David Brewster, Robert Jameson (1821)
"Account of two large loadstones.—In a paper giving an account of three large
loadstones brought from Moscow, read before the ..."
2. Diary of John Manningham, of the Middle Temple, and of Bradbourne, Kent by John Manningham (1868)
"125. like an iron betwixt two loadstones wee incline still to one of them.
I heard the Queene left behinde hir in money, plate, and jewels, 8 Aprill 1603. ..."
3. Letters of Euler on Different Subjects in Natural Philosophy: Addressed to a by Leonhard Euler, David Brewster, John Griscom (1833)
"loadstones, on being taken from the mine, are usually reduced to the figure of
a parallelepiped, or rectangular parallelogram, with thickness as AA, B fi, ..."
4. William Gilbert of Colchester, Physician of London: On the Loadstone and by William Gilbert, Paul Fleury Mottelay, Edward Wright (1893)
"All loadstones alike, whether spherical or oblong, have the self-same mode of
turning to the poles of the world ; but it is easiest to experiment with ..."
5. A History of the Royal Society, with Memoris of the Presidents by Charles Richard Weld (1848)
"... Register Book opened—Questions sent to Teneriffe—Charles II. sends loadstones
to the Society—Evelyn's Communications—Experiments made at the Tower—Glass ..."
6. Travels in the Three Great Empires of Austria, Russia, and Turkey by Charles Boileau Elliott (1838)
"Destruction by earthquake. — Acropolis. — Historical recollections. — loadstones.
— Origin of words magnet and magnesia.— Streets.— Mosques. — Population. ..."
7. Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society by Wernerian Natural History Society, Edinburgh, Wernerian Natural History Society (Edinburgh, Scotland) (1823)
"TT HEN we come to try the magnetic energy of large loadstones, or natural magnets,
we seldom find them to display that force, in proportion to their size ..."
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