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It should perhaps be remembered that the study of magnetism began with the discovery of permanent magnets and that it was Coulomb who in the late eighteenth century showed that the force between the poles of two such magnets followed the inverse-square law.
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© 1981 Ruth V. Buckley
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Buckley, R.V. (1981). Electromagnetic Theory. In: Electromagnetic Fields. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-05792-4_3
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