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Magnêtis
Adler number: mu,23
Translated headword: Magnesian, magnetic
Vetting Status: high
Translation: There is a certain stone so-called, which has a natural power to draw iron to itself. In Egyptian Alexandria in the Serapeion there was a mechanism of deceit and wickedness of this kind: having made a statue of bronze and nailing iron inside the head, they fixed this stone above in the coffers of the ceiling opposite. The statue being drawn by the natural force of the stone, for it was hung up in the air, by great mechanism and skill was held between the floor and the ceiling, causing great amazement and not at all pulled down.
Greek Original:Magnêtis: lithos tis estin houtô kaloumenos, hos echei phusikên energeian helkein pros heauton ton sidêron. ên de en Alexandreiai tês Aiguptou en tôi Sarapeiôi planês kai kakourgias toiouton ti mêchanêma: xoanon kataskeuasantes ek chalkou kai en têi kephalêi sidêron endothen kathêlôsantes ton lithon touton en tois phatnômasin anôthen tês stegês epêxan apo diametrou. to de hupo tês phusikês bias helkomenon tou lithou, meteôron gar ekremato, dia pollên mêchanên kai technên ekrateito meson edaphous kai orophou, thaumazomenon kai mê pantelôs kataspômenon.
Notes:
George the Monk,
Chronicon 2.584.18-2.585.6.
On Magnesian (magnetic) stone, cf.
eta 459.
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 12 October 2005@01:20:03.
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