Anton Brugmans

You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in Dutch. (March 2020) Click [show] for important translation instructions. Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia. Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article. You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing Dutch Wikipedia article at [[:nl:Antonius Brugmans]]; see its history for attribution. You may also add the template {{Translated|nl|Antonius Brugmans}} to the talk page. For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.

Anton Brugmans (1732–1789) was Dutch physicist who proposed a two-fluid theory of magnetism.^[1] He did magnetism experiments by putting objects on water or mercury, using surface tension to make them float and magnets to move them. He discovered the diamagnetism of bismuth.^[2]