Length1h 47m
About this audiobook
Magnetism is the invisible force that a child meets first and the universe uses most. This book is a plain-language tour of the subject from the lodestone to the magnetar, written without a single equation. It begins with the discovery: the Magnesian stone, the legend of the shepherd and its honest grading, the Chinese south-pointing spoon, Peregrinus and his mapped poles in 1269, and Gilbert's 1600 proof that the Earth itself is a magnet. It builds the grammar in words: what a field is, why the lines never cross, why no one has ever found a single pole, and how iron filings draw the map. It follows the people and the century that cracked the subject open: Oersted's classroom accident of 1820, Ampere's guess that a magnet is electricity in motion, Faraday's 1831 discovery that a moving magnet pours out current, and the generators, motors, and transformers that built the electrical world.
Audiobook details
GenreEducation and Learning
Length1 hr 47 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateOct 22, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
2Chapter 1: The Stone That Pointed
3Chapter 2: Gilbert and the Magnetized Earth
4Chapter 3: The Grammar of a Field
5Chapter 4: Oersted's Accident
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6Chapter 5: Faraday and the Current From Motion
7Chapter 6: The Family of Magnetic Materials
8Chapter 7: The Magnet Inside the Atom
9Chapter 8: Why Iron Remembers
10Chapter 9: The Electromagnet
11Chapter 10: The Dynamo Inside the Earth
12Chapter 11: The Compass at Sea
13Chapter 12: The Magnetic Century
14Chapter 13: Magnetism in the Body and the Hospital
15Chapter 14: The Magnetic Universe
16Chapter 15: The Open Questions
17Chapter 16: Fun Facts and Trivia, Graded
18Conclusion
19References: Magnetism
20Glossary
21About the Author
22Series Info
23Copyright
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