"Diamagnet" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... end a south pole, in virtue of the earth's induction. A marble statue, on the contrary, has its feet a south pole, and its head a north pole, and there is no doubt that the same remark applies to its living archetype; each man walking over the earth's surface is a true diamagnet, with its poles the reverse of those of a mass of magnetic matter of the same shape ...
— Fragments of science, V. 1-2 • John Tyndall |
