Faraday's delineation of lines of magnetic force by iron filings
JAN 01 1852
One of Faraday's own iron-filing figures, made 1851-1855, in which he fixed the pattern of magnetic lines of force onto paper. Diamagnetic bodies, in Faraday's language, were those that set themselves ACROSS the lines of force rather than along them - so these figures are the visual vocabulary of his theory. Made by Faraday himself, with brass, glass, ink, iron and paper.
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