"Quum essem apud Philippum superuenit Ioachinus Leuantius Ligur a Lotrechio missus, qui deposceret captiuos; sed ille negauit se daturum, quando eos ad ipsum Andream Auriam ammirantem deducendos esse iudicaret. Vgonis uerò cadauer, ut illudentium Barbarorum contumeliis eriperetur, ad Amalphim urbem delatum est, in ædeque Andreæ apostoli, tumultuariis exequiis tumulatum. In hac urbe citriorum & medicorum odoratis nemoribus æquè peramoena & celebri, Magnetis usum nauigantibus hodie familiarem & necessarium, adinuentum suisse incolæ asserunt." Flavius Blondus, whom Gilbert cites, gives the following reference, in which Gioia's name is not mentioned, in the section upon Campania Felix of his Italy (_Blondi Flavii Forlinensis ... Italia Illustrata_, Basiliæ, 1531, p. 420). "Sed fama est qua Amalphitanos audiuimus gloriari, magnetis usum, cuius adminiculo nauigantes ad arcton diriguntur, Amalphi suisse inuentum, quicquid uero habeat in ea re ueritas, certû est id noctu nauigandi auxilium priscis omnino suisse incognitum." There is a further reference to the alleged Amalphian in Caelius Calcagninus _De re nautica commentatio_. (_See Thesaurus Græcarum Antiquitatum_, 1697, vol. xi., p. 761.) On the other hand Baptista Porta, who wrote in Naples in 1558 (_Magia Naturalis_) distinctly sets aside the claim as baseless. William Barlowe, in _The Navigators Supply_ (1597, p. A3), says: "Who was the first inuentor of this Instrument miraculous, and endued, as it were, with life, can hardly be found. The lame tale of one _Flauius_ at _Amelphis_, in the kingdome of _Naples_, for to haue deuised it, is of very slender probabilitie. _Pandulph Collenutius_ writing the Neapolitane historie telleth vs, that they of _Amelphis_ say, it is a common opinion there, that it was first found out among them. But _Polidore Virgil_, who searched most diligently for the Inuentors of things, could neuer heare of this opinion (yet himselfe being an Italian) and as he confesseth in the later ende of his third booke _de inventoribus rerum_, could neuer vnderstand anything concerning the first inuention of this instrument." According to Park Benjamin (_Intellectual Rise in Electricity_, p. 146) the use of the pivotted compass arose and spread not from Amalfi at the hands of Italians in the fourteenth century, but from Wisbuy, at the hands of the Finns, in the middle of the twelfth century. {10} Hakewill (_An Apologie or Declaration of the Power and Providence of God_, London, 1673, pp. 284-285) says: