Hidden Attraction - Verschuur, Gerrit
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Boasting many informative illustrations, this is an adventure of the mind, using the specific phenomenon of magnetism to show how we have moved from an era of superstitions to one in which the Theory of Everything looms on the horizon.
Long one of nature's most fascinating phenomena, magnetism was once the subject of many superstitions, including a lodestone's supposed power to attract gold. Hidden Attractions traces the history of our fascination with magnetism, from the mystery and superstition that propelled the first alchemical experiments to the more tangible works of Faraday and Maxwell. 28 illustrations.…mehr

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Boasting many informative illustrations, this is an adventure of the mind, using the specific phenomenon of magnetism to show how we have moved from an era of superstitions to one in which the Theory of Everything looms on the horizon.
Long one of nature's most fascinating phenomena, magnetism was once the subject of many superstitions, including a lodestone's supposed power to attract gold. Hidden Attractions traces the history of our fascination with magnetism, from the mystery and superstition that propelled the first alchemical experiments to the more tangible works of Faraday and Maxwell. 28 illustrations.
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Gerrit L. Verschuur is Research Professor of Astronomy at Rhodes College, Memphis, Tennessee, and contributing editor of Air and Space Magazine.