Hidden Attraction Synopsis : Long one of nature's most fascinating phenomena, magnetism was once the subject of many superstitions. Magnets were thought useful to thieves, effective as a love potion or as a cure for gout or spasms. They could remove sorcery from women and put demons to flight and even reconcile married couples. It was said that a lodestone pickled in the salt of sucking fish had the power to attract gold. Today, these beliefs have been put aside, but magnetism is no less remarkable for our modern understanding of it. In Hidden Attraction, Gerrit L. Verschuur, a noted astronomer and National Book Award nominee for The Invisible Universe, traces the history of our fascination with magnetism, from the first discovery of magnets in Greece, to state-of-the-art theories that see magnetism as a basic force in the universe. The book begins with the early debunking of superstitions by Peter Peregrinus (Pierre de Maricourt), whom Roger Bacon hailed as one of the world's first experimental scientists (Perigrinus held that \
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- Title : Hidden Attraction
- Author : "Gerrit L. Verschuur"
- Publisher : Oxford University Press
- Published : 1996-04-25
- Book Pages : 272 Pages
- ISBN 10 : 0195355520
- ISBN 13 : 9780195355529
- Maturity : NOT_MATURE
- PDF Version : Available
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