Fatal attraction : magnetic mysteries of the Enlightenment / Patricia Fara.

Thriplow, Cambridge : Icon Books Ltd, 2005.

ix, 206 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

Mysterious magnets -- pt. 1. Halley's holistic hypotheses. Scientific starters -- Magnetic visions -- Inside the earth -- Mapping magnetism -- pt. 2. Knight's navigational novelties. Who was Gowin Knight? -- Marketing magnets -- Commercialising compasses -- Enigmatic theories -- pt. 3. Mesmer's magnetic medicine. The rise and rise of Franz Anton Mesmer -- Animal magnetism exposed -- Mesmeric movements -- Faraday's fields.