One text speaks of "straw" being drawn to a
>(magnetic?) stone. What might this mean?
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Amber? Nowadays we can pick up pieces of paper etc. with a comb after combing
our hair. This presumably would have been equally possible in antiquity with
an amber comb. Actually the charge is electric (from elektra, the word for
amber) rather than magnetic, but one would hardly expect the old folks to
distinguish.
Oriens.
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