Hello John and other list members,

John wrote:

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> What does Plato say on magnetism? Is there any reference in the Timaeus on
> magnetism?

....there is a reference to magnetic stone ....

80C "furthermore, as regards all flowing of waters, and falling of
thunderbolts, and marvels concerning the attraction of the electron
and of the Heraclean stone - not one of all these 4ever possesses
any real attraction; but the fact that there is no void, and that these
bodies propel themselves round one another, and that according as
they separate or unite they all exchange places and proceed severally
each to its own region, - and it is by means of these complex and
reciprocal processes that such marvels are wrought, ..."

(Bury trans., Harvard UP)