
English: 
Do you know how magnets were discovered?
How?
I don’t know how. But we can go and find
out!
Roughly 4000 years ago..
Legend has it that a long time ago, in the northern region of Greece called Magnesia,
something strange happened with a shepherd.
While taking a step he found that the nails that held his shoe together
and the metal tip of his shoe were stuck to the rock he stepped on.
He began digging the rock out and discovered the first recorded lodestone.

English: 
Discovery of Magnets
Casa – Do you know how magnets were discovered?
Asa – How?
Casa – I don’t know how.
But, we can go and find out!
Casa – Roughly 4,000 years ago, legend had
it that a long time ago, in the northern region
of Greece called Magnesia, something strange
happened with a shepherd.
While taking a step he found that the nails
that held his shoe together and the metal
tip of his shoe were stuck to the rock he
stepped on.
He began digging the rock out and discovered
the first recorded lodestone.

English: 
Asa- I thought magnet were discovered for
a “compass” somewhere between 1405 and
1433.
Casa – Well yes, the first documented use
of suspended lodestones is provided by the
Chinese for a compass!
In 1088 Shen Kuo has described a magnetic
needle used for navigation in his essays.
Also, somewhere between 1405 and 1433, Zheng
He of the Yunnan Province is considered to
be the first one to document the usage of
a compass in his voyage across the seven oceans.

English: 
I thought magnet were discovered for a “compass”
Somewhere between 1405 and 1433,
Well yes,
the first documented use of suspended lodestones is provided by the Chinese for a compass!
In 1088 Shen Kuo has described a magnetic needle used for navigation in his essays.
Also, somewhere between 1405 and 1433
Zheng He of Yunnan Province is considered to be the first one to document
the usage of a compass in his voyage across seven oceans.

English: 
Asa – Hmm..but I heard that it was an Englishman
Alexander Neckam who recorded the earliest
European understanding of magnets used in
a compass back in 1180!
Casa – Debatable.
But I say Chinese were the first ones!
Asa – Wanna settle it over a Magnet Fishing
Game?

English: 
Hmm..but I heard that it was an Englishman Alexander Neckam
who recorded the earliest European understanding of magnets used in a compass back in 1180!
Debatable. But I say Chinese were the first ones!
Do you wanna settle it over a Magnet Fishing Game?
