Tags: magnetic field, magnets
Categories: Pseudo-explanations
An example of anthropomorphic language in scientific writing:
"If, for instance, a magnet attracts a piece of iron, we … imagine – after the manner of Faraday – that the magnet always calls into being something physically real in the space around it, that something being what we call a 'magnetic field'. In its turn this magnetic field operates on the piece of iron, so that the latter strives to move towards the magnet."
Albert Einstein
Einstein, A. (2004). Relativity. The special and the general theory. (R. W. Lawson, Trans.). The Folio Society. (1916)
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