[ZB Magnet 1] Taisnier of Hainault (Hannonius), De Natura et Effectibus Lapidis Magneticis, Coloniae 1562, published the letter on the magnet by Peregrinus under his own name. Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Alte Drucke und Rara, NE 1836: 3, p. 11.

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Judith Albert

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No one here at Headfarm reads Latin fluently. Nevertheless, Magnes forces the others to read the Latin poem of Claudian and not only the English translation. So they start to look for a way through the text using a dictionary, a tiring and “stony” way, but it offers a strange joy.

The joy of spending time in a crystal shop. Now every word seems to have a unique kind of appearance.

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