Edmond Halley, Franz Mesmer ^ Gowin Knight, three of the most brilliant men in Enlightenment Europe, were each drawn to investigate the force of magnetism. In Fatal Attraction, popular science writer Patricia Fara tells their astonishing stories, revealing how magnetism went from a poorly understood phonomenon to the very center of a scientif study—only to be eclipsed by a new, more powerful interest in electricity. Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Halley's Holistic Hypotheses Knight's Navigational Novelties Mesmer's Magnetic Medicine Faraday's Fields Notes Further Reading