🗺️ 🧲 **Mapping Magnetism**

Abraham Parrish

“_Flemish cartographer Gerhard Mercator depicted magnetic mountains on what was to be the first published map of the Arctic and North Pole, which was an inset on his world map published in 1569._”

🔗 blogs.loc.gov/maps/2025/05/map.

@bibliolater @MPgh I recall a roadside attraction, Magnetic Hill, in Nova Scotia. you park at bottom, and your car rolls, slowly, up.

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