Magnes (was Re: Greece Myth)

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From: Pieter Kuiper
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 1997 00:00

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In article <34262DC3.B33@luecology.ecol.lu.se>, David Hagerberg
<mik_daha@luecology.ecol.lu.se> wrote:

>There is a Greece story (myth) about the discovery of magnetism, there a
>young shepherd, after a one-night sleep in a cave, finds his iron-shoed
>rod hanging from the ceiling.
>
>Who has written it, and where could it be read?

D.C. Mattis (The Theory of Magnetism) writes:

According to Pliny's account the magnet stone was named after its
discoverer, the shephard Magnes, "the nails of whose shoes and the tip of
whose staff stuck fast in a magnetic field while he pastured his flocks."

Mattis refers to Gilbert's (William Gilbert of Colchester, 1544-1603) book
De Magnete for the reference to Pliny (first century AD).

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Pieter            (kuiper@fysik.uu.se)

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From: kuiper@cutthistorespond.fysik.uu.se (Pieter Kuiper)
Subject: Magnes (was Re: Greece Myth)
Date: 1997/09/22
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