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1838 Ann. Electr., Magnetism, & Chem. 2 53 Had Mr. Clarke, the ‘magnetician’, known that fact, he might have saved himself the trouble.

1846 C. Fox Jrnl. 13 Oct. (1972) 168 Mineral veins, however, a quite different case; infinite scope therein for Papa and all Magneticians.

1854 B. Powell Pereira's Lect. Polarized Light (ed. 2) 65 The electrician and the magnetician have assumed, respectively, an electric and a magnetic fluid.

1897 Proc. Royal Soc. 1896–7 60 p. x His first paper on that subject..was completely overlooked by magneticians.

1931 S. R. Williams Magn. Phenomena i. 52 The consensus of opinion among magneticians..is to reserve the term remanent magnetism for the open-circuit residual magnetism.

1966 McGraw-Hill Encycl. Sci. & Technol. (rev. ed.) IV. 20/1 One of these [components], called variation by the navigator and magnetic declination by the magnetician, is the angle between magnetic and geographic meridians.

1984 Listener 17 May 37/4 William Laird McKinley, magnetician and meteorologist, told the story of how their converted whaler was crushed by ice.