coition

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A determined Verticity and a disponent Faculty are what arrange magneticks, not a force, attracting them or pulling them together, nor merely a strongish coition or unition.

From On the magnet, magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth a new physiology, demonstrated by many arguments & experiments by Gilbert, William

The variation and direction arise from the disponent power of the earth, and from the natural magnetick tendency to rotation, not from attraction, or from coition, or from other occult cause.

From On the magnet, magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth a new physiology, demonstrated by many arguments & experiments by Gilbert, William

In particular, he distinguished electric attraction from magnetic coition, and pointed out the main features of electrical attraction.

From The Natural Philosophy of William Gilbert and His Predecessors by King, W. James

Union with an armed Loadstone is stronger; hence greater weights are raised; but the coition is not stronger, but generally weaker.

From On the magnet, magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth a new physiology, demonstrated by many arguments & experiments by Gilbert, William

The word Coitio, used by Gilbert for the mutual force between magnet and iron, has been retained in its English form, coition.

From On the magnet, magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth a new physiology, demonstrated by many arguments & experiments by Gilbert, William