アタナシウス・キルヒャー
"Magnes", by the Jesuit luminary Athanasius Kircher, carries on page 640 the provocative chapter-heading: ""Elektro-magnetismos" i.e. On the Magnetism of amber, or electrical attractions and their causes" ( "id est sive De Magnetismo electri, seu electricis attractionibus earumque causis").