The Magnetic Kingdom of Nature

he could not praise enough. But since I had shown that I placed no faith in such reports of things unless sensory experience itself rendered me more certain of their virtue, he replied that he would not leave Rome until I was made fully aware of the truth of the matters proclaimed through actual experience. Encouraged by this promise, I prepared myself without delay to put each and every point to the test, and not without astonishment and admiration did I discover that what he had recounted to me was true and worthy of every belief, as will be made evident in the course of this work. But because in the very practice of these experiments I discovered certain remarkable and truly admirable magnetisms of occult virtue, I decided to title this short work the Triple Magnet of Nature, Inanimate, Vegetable, and Sensitive.