#rabbithole

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"evidence in Chinese documents suggests magnetism was observed as early as 2000 BC. The ancient Greeks observed electric and magnetic phenomena possibly as early as 700 BC. The Greeks knew about magnetic forces from observations that the naturally occurring stone "magnetite" (Fe3O4) is attracted to iron. (The word electric comes from elecktron, the Greek word for "amber". The word Magnetic comes from Magnesia, the name of the district of Greece where magnetite was first found.)" Page 641, paragraph two, "Physics for scientists and engineers with modern physics" volume 2 7th edition, by Serway and Jewett.

so then if the Chinese found it before the Greeks why tf aren't we calling it whatever the Chinese were calling it? They discovered it before the Greeks did?

Apparently the Chinese had early alpha version compasses? They called magnetite lodestone. Lodestone was shortened to spoon? But that was only one type of compass and someone made a better one later

Look this article is great but it's referring to everything in common vernacular and English, so it's still not saying what the Chinese term for magnetism was in 2000 BC or later before the Greeks came into the magnet scene.

China though, for it's little documentation regarding it apparently (WHICH I SERIOUSLY DOUBT AND AM PRETTY SURE IT'S ENGLISH SPEAKING SCIENTISTS NOT REALLY BOTHERING WITH DIGGING INTO CHINESE RECORDS) used multiple early examples of compasses, which means it was used in war both on land and at sea, which means that it has to be recorded in some military record, so whatever term they used should be somewhere?

anyways this has been my ADHD rabbithole into "why the hell are we calling it by this country's name for it if they found it second" while knowing full well it's because racism and Victorian era Europeans wanting to fuck the statue of David.

So in light of English papers not turning up anything and the ones that possibly would are locked behind a paywall, I turn to google translate.

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