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Lodestone

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A named naturally magnetic iron-stone used in early compass work and later as a drawing-stone in pharmacy. Not hematite, and not generic iron.

Also known as Magnetite

  • Lodestone is used in Medicine.

    Pliny’s Natural History treats the lodestone (magnet) among mineral remedies and wonder-stones of attraction. A Roman-era pharmacological and natural-history use of magnetic iron-stone, not bare iron and not a compass essay alone.

    from Pliny the Elder · Natural History, c. 77 CE

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Roman religion

  • Lodestone appears in Roman religion.

    Pliny’s Natural History seats the lodestone among magnetic stones of Roman natural-history and craft curiosity beyond pharmacy alone. A named lodestone craft encyclopedia seat, not lodestone medicine already walked and not hematite as ordinary iron-oxide alone.

    from Pliny the Elder · Natural History, c. 77 CE

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Egyptian religion

  • Lodestone appears in Egyptian religion.

    Plutarch’s On Isis and Osiris, citing Manetho, names the loadstone as the ‘bone of Horus’ in Egyptian mineral-theology speech. A named lodestone in that treatise’s Egypt, not a modern compass dump and not iron as Typhon’s bone (iron is not this object entity).

    from Plutarch · On Isis and Osiris, c. 100 CE

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  • Lodestone is historically related to Bone.

    Plutarch’s On Isis and Osiris records the Egyptian naming of loadstone as the bone of Horus (and iron as the bone of Typhon). A named lodestone–bone figure in that treatise, not a relic-bone dump and not magnetite as a separate mineral id.

    from Plutarch · On Isis and Osiris, c. 100 CE

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Hellenic religion

  • Lodestone appears in Hellenic religion.

    Plutarch’s Greek Moralia essay On Isis and Osiris carries the loadstone/Horus bone naming into Hellenic comparative theology. A named lodestone in that Greek philosophical reception, not the Egyptian appears_in seat alone and not a modern lodestone-compass romance.

    from Plutarch · On Isis and Osiris, c. 100 CE

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