Ars Magnesia (The Magnetic Art) was a book on magnetism by the Jesuit scholar Athanasius Kircher in 1631.[1] It was his first published work, written while he was professor of ethics and mathematics, Hebrew and Syriac at the University of Würzburg.[2][3] It was published in Würzburg by Elias Michael Zink.[4]
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