0 a quality that makes someone very attractive to other people: --
1 the power of being able to attract iron and steel objects and also push them away --
In this system, reproduction was guaranteed by the magnetism of an extreme biological dimorphism: the greater the difference, the greater the love that binds and the more prolific the breeding.
When this aspect was felt to be too weak a reason for an expedition, the collection of scientific data was added, including meteorology, terrestrial magnetism, physical oceanography, and zoology.
The main scientific thrust was terrestrial magnetism.
In this sense the study of terrestrial magnetism, and its extension as an observational field science, suffers from a similar aesthetic: invisible, intangible, difficult to grasp.
The creation of instruments relying on a different paradigm of sound production (electricity and magnetism) has had a great influence on the conceptualisation of new methods of musical creation.
Especially within the field of electricity and magnetism (but with the development of precision measurement more generally), nearly every phenomenon became observable only with the assistance of instruments or apparatus.
Despite the difficult ice conditions, the expedition had carried out valuable topographic surveys and made scientific field observations in meteorology, zoology, botany, ethnography, geology, magnetism, and astronomy.
In addition, mechanics broadened into mathematical physics, with the initial mathematicization of parts of heat theory, physical optics, and electricity and magnetism (including their connection in electromagnetism).
