Deptford about a little business,
and so back again, buying a couple of good eeles by the way, and after
writing by the post, home to see the painter at work, late, in my wife's
closet, and so to supper and to bed, having been very merry with the
painter, late, while he was doing his work. This day the King and Court
returned from their progress.

2nd. Up betimes and by water to St. James's, and there visited Mr.
Coventry as a compliment after his new coming to town, but had no
great talk with him, he being full of business. So back by foot through
London, doing several errands, and at the 'Change met with Mr. Cutler,
and he and I to a coffee-house, and there discoursed, and he do assure
me that there is great likelyhood of a war with Holland, but I hope
we shall be in good condition before it comes to break out. I like his
company, and will make much of his acquaintance. So home to dinner with
my wife, who is over head and eares in getting her house up, and so to
the office, and with Mr. Lewes, late, upon some of the old victuallers'
accounts, and so home to supper and to bed, up to our red chamber, where
we purpose always to lie. This day I received a letter from Mr. Barlow,
with a Terella,

[Professor Silvanus P. Thompson, F.R.S., has kindly supplied me with
the following interesting note on the terrella (or terella): The
name given by Dr. William Gilbert, author of the famous treatise,
"De Magnete" (Lond. 1600), to a spherical loadstone, on account of
its acting as a model, magnetically, of the earth; compass-needles
pointing to its poles, as mariners' compasses do to the poles of
the earth. The term was adopted by other writers who followed
Gilbert, as the following passage from Wm. Barlowe's "Magneticall
Advertisements" (Lond. 1616) shows: "Wherefore the round Loadstone
is significantly termed by Doct. Gilbert Terrella, that is, a
little, or rather a very little Earth: For it representeth in an
exceeding small model (as it were) the admirable properties
magneticall of the huge Globe of the earth" (op. cit, p. 55).
Gilbert set great store by his invention of the terrella, since it
led him to propound the true theory of the mariners' compass. In
his portrait of himself which he had painted for the University of
Oxford he was represented as holding in his hand a globe inscribed
terella. In the Galileo Museum in Florence t