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The drawing together of magnets at their compatible poles is not properly, but improperly, termed attraction. For a magnet does not actually draw another magnet or a piece of iron to itself; rather the magnetic virtue enters or comes into the iron and for this reason directs the one towards the other.
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Von Guericke, O. (1994). The Difference between the Conserving and Directing Virtue of the Earth. In: The New (So-Called) Magdeburg Experiments of Otto Von Guericke. Archives Internationales D’Histoire Des Idées / International Archives of the History of Ideas, vol 137. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2010-4_92
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