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Magnets

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  • A postcard illustrating a variety of good luck charms. Chromolithograph.
  • A young uniformed man sitting with a pillow on his chair, facing a machine giving electro-magnetic treatment; a nurse holds his head in position. Photograph.
  • A postcard illustrating a young couple surrounded by a variety of good luck charms. Process print.
  • CROKER: Dictionary of Arts and Science
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    Specvlvm lapidvm / Camilli Leonardi. Cvi accessit Sympathia septem metallorum ac septem selectorum lapidum ad planetas. D. Petri Arlensis de Scudalupis.

    Leonardi, Camillo, active 1502. | Date: 1610
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    A young uniformed man sitting with a pillow on his chair, facing a machine giving electro-magnetic treatment; a nurse holds his head in position. Photograph.

    Press Photographic Agency (Photopress : London, England) | Reference: 35896i
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    Fatal attraction : magnetic mysteries of the Enlightenment / Patricia Fara.

    Fara, Patricia | Date: 2005
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    Sympathetic attractions : magnetic practices, beliefs, and symbolism in eighteenth-century England / Patricia Fara.

    Fara, Patricia. | Date: 1996
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    On the employment of the magnet and electro-magnet in the removal of iron & steel fragments from the interior of the eye / by Simeon Snell.

    Snell, Simeon, 1851-1909. | Date: [1881]
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