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AT a meeting of the Newcomen Society held at the British Industries Fair, Birmingham, on March 2, Dr. J. B. Kramer read a paper on “The Early History of Magnetism”, in which he discussed the various accounts of the first discovery of a magnet, and the development of the science of magnetism down to A.D. 1600. His remarks were divided into five sections, the first dealing with the discovery of magnetism up to and including the writings of Lucretius, about 95–52 B.C.; the second with the interpretations and first applications of magnetism up to the thirteenth century; the third with the experimental researches of Peter Peregrinus of Marincourt, A.D. 1269; the fourth with the magnetic compass, between the thirteenth and sixteenth centuries; and the last with the discovery of terrestrial magnetism by Gilbert, and with Gilbert's book, “De Magneto”.
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Early History of Magnetism. Nature 129, 428 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/129428c0
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