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Excerpt from Traite Complet du Magnetisme
Un morceau de fer qu'on laisse longtemps expose aux influences atmospheriques, ou qui est lime, martele ou passe a la filiere, acquiert la propriete d'attirer la limaille de fer, et meme de soulever quelquefois des morceaux assez pesants de ce metal. Cette propriete appartient egalement a un minerai de fer, appele en raison de cea pierre d'aimant. On a nomme magne tisme l'ensemble des proprietes des aimants. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
