Magnes, [Greek: magnês], [Greek: magnêtis], 11. Magnesia, 8. Magnetick axis of terrella, 81, 212. axis of earth, 13, 81, 212. horizon, 80. meridian, 79, 152. mountains or rocks, 5, 6, 18, 116, 152. islands, 5, 153, 161. motions, the five, 45. Magnus, Albertus. _See_ Albertus. Magnus, Olaus, 5, 6. Mahometes Aractensis, 234, 237. Mahomet's tomb, 2. Manardus, Joannes, 35. Marbodæus Gallus, 2, 7. Marcellus Empiricus, 2. Marco Polo (Paulus Venetus), 4. mariners' compass. _See_ compass. Mars, saffron of (_Crocus Martis_), 34, 91. Marsiglio Ficino. _See_ Ficinus. Martin Cortes, 5, 116, 152. matter and form, 52, 65. Matthæus Silvaticus, 3. Matthiolus, Petrus, 2, 3. Mauritanus, Gilgil, 19. Mauritanus, Serapio, 2, 6. Maurolycus, Franciscus, 5, 42, 153, 180. medicinal use of iron, 33. of loadstone, 32. Medina, Pedro de, 166. Menelaus, 234, 237. meridian, magnetick, 79, 152, 163. Merula, Gaudentius, 7. meteorick stones, falls of, 26, 27. mica (or muscovy stone), 11, 48, 52. [Greek: mikrogê]. _See_ terrella. moisture stops electrick action, 53, 56. Montagnana, B., 35. Montanus, Arias, 4. Montanus, Joannes Baptista, 2. Moors, Serapio and the, 6. mountains, magnetick, 5, 6, 18, 116, 152. movement of trepidation, 117. Musa Brasavolus, Antonius, 2. muscovy stone, 11, 48, 52. _See also_ mica. myths of the magnet, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 18, 32, 63, 107, 109, 110, 111, 116, 143, 153, 228 motions, the various magnetical, 46. Names of amber, 47. names of the loadstone, 11. names given to the magnetick poles, 15, 115, 125, 129. Nicander of Colophon, 8, 9. Nicetas, 214. Nicolas Copernicus, 212, 214, 216, 231, 237, 238, 240 Nicolaus Myrepsus, or Præpositas, 33. non-electrick bodies, 51, 55. Nonius, Petrus (Pedro Nuñez), 166. Norman, Robert, 5, 8, 153, 161, 162. supposes a point respective, 5, 153, 161, 162. his _Newe Attractive_, 8. discoverer of the dip, 8. Norumbega, the city of, 154. Nova Zembla, 152, 179. Offusius, Jofrancus, 46. Olaus Magnus, 5, 6. opal becomes electrical, 48. orbe of virtue, 76, 96, 191, 205 orbes of planets, 208, 215. Oribasius, 2. Orpheus, 11, 61, 209. Oviedus, Gonzalus (Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo y Valdès), 4.