who who discovered the magnet and where
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Answer:The Shepherd Magnes discovered magnet around 4,00,000 years ago.....
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Explanation:
The first documented use of magnets has been for a compass. Between the years 1405 and 1433, Zheng.
He of Yunnan province mentioned the use of a compass with a magnetic needle as he recorded his voyages across seven oceans.
Legend has it that magnets were discovered accidentally by a Greek shepherd named Magnes.
While tending his sheep in a region of northern Greece called Magnesia, the shepherd took a step and suddenly found that the metal tip of his shoe was stuck on a rock he was standing on.
Puzzled, he began digging and discovered the first recorded lodestone.
It is said that since then Lodestone started getting known as “magnetite”, probably named after Magnes or Magnesia.