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Why is electricity called electricity?

The Greek philosopher Thales of Miletus noticed in about 600 BC that pieces of resin found on the shores of the Baltic Sea (which we call amber, and the ancient Greeks called electron), if rubbed against a piece of fur or wool, acquire the ability to attract feathers, threads or fluff.

Therefore, more than a thousand years later, the English physicist William Gilbert (1544-1603) proposed calling this force of mutual attraction electricity, introducing this term to science for the first time. Hilbert also found that, in addition to amber, other materials, such as glass, have a similar property.

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