Hans Christian Ørsted 1777–1851

saw the magnet grow electric and the fixed points become a field in rural Denmark as the needle moved through various materials all the while remaining parallel: the usual: silver, zinc, lead, etc. and then tried needles of glass needles of shellac with all the west above while below, the east in winding spirals traveling three years across Europe, a good friend of Hans Christian Andersen and of aluminum, whose name points to its invisible lights within whose forces crossed and became his galvanic opus,The Soulin Nature, as well as various Italian newspapers — to eventually end up as a park in Copenhagen dominated by green, a lake, and shade in which a woman dressed in green sits reading to this day.