Magnetic Field

The magnetic field was first studied in 1269, when French scholar Petrus Peregrinus de Maricourt used
iron needles to map the magnetic field on the surface of a spherical magnet. He observed that the
resulting field lines intersected at two points. These points were dubbed "poles" by him. Following this
observation, he stated that magnets always have North and South poles, regardless of how finely they
are sliced.

William Gilbert stated three centuries later that the Earth is a magnet.

Magnetic poles attract and repel each other, according to John Mitchell, an English clergyman and
philosopher, in 1750.

Charles-Augustin de Coulomb experimentally confirmed the Earth's magnetic field in 1785. Simeon
Denis Poisson, a French mathematician and geometer, developed the first magnetic field model in the
nineteenth century.

Field lines are another method of representing the information contained within a magnetic vector field.
Magnetic field lines are fictitious lines.

Magnetic field lines are a type of visual representation of magnetic fields. They describe the magnetic
force direction on a north monopole at any given position.

The line density indicates the magnitude of the field. For example, near the poles of a magnet, the
magnetic field is stronger and more dense. It becomes weaker as we move away from the poles, and the
lines become less dense.