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    Who First Proposed That Earth Acted as a Large Magnet
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Who First Proposed That Earth Acted as a Large Magnet

Question 78

Question 78

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Who first proposed that Earth acted as a large magnet whose field forces the needle of a magnetic compass to align north-south?


A) Charles Darwin
B) William Gilbert
C) James Hutton
D) Charles Lyell

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