De Magnete is most famous for introducing (or at least popularizing) an experimental approach to science and deducing that the Earth is a great magnet.

He also announces his deduction that the Earth is a great magnet.

When he was 18, Mr. Bissoondath arrived in Toronto, Canada's great magnet for immigrants.

There were great magnets on the side of the tunnel and a bewildering array of scientific hardware - wires, switches, large metal boxes.

He also says that there were a lot of radio tubes in the brute, as well as a thundering great magnet.

The opportunity to work with him again was a great magnet.

"This is going to be a much greater magnet for gentrification throughout the western and central areas of Harlem."

These blocks are great magnets - that's what holds the rifle; what holds us, too.

"New York is a great magnet for the arts, dancers among them," he added.

There cannot be a greater magnet for crime anywhere than the opportunity to convert ill-gotten gains into apparently legally-gotten gains.