We are accustomed to the magnet and treat it a little condescendingly, like an outdated attribute of school physics lessons, sometimes not even suspecting how many magnets there are around us. There are dozens of magnets in our apartment: in an electric razor, speakers, a tape recorder, in jars of nails, finally. We ourselves are also magnets: the biocurrents flowing in us give rise to a bizarre pulsating pattern of magnetic lines of force around us. The earth we live on is a giant blue magnet. However, no one can ever say that they know everything about a magnet. This problem is too overwhelming. The author invites readers to take a fascinating journey into the world of magnets and their history, through finds and losses, the joy of discovery and the bitterness of disappointment, years of fruitless thoughts and moments of dazzling insight.