Note 4 — REPORT
Reading edition
The experiments of the ring and sword, are to be found in Kircher’s Magnes, sive de arte magnetica. They are both well known. “That of the sword consists in the balancing it upon the point of one of the fingers, the consequence of which will be a very rapid rotatory motion, provided the person be properly magnetised. That of the ring is performed by a person initiated in the animal magnetism, holding it suspended by a thread in the inside of a wine glass, when it will invariably strike the hour of the day.” Thouret.