Static levitation is a form of marvel with metaphysical implications whose long history has not previously been charted. First, Pliny the Elder reports an architect’s plan to suspend an iron statue using magnetism, and the later compiler Ampelius mentions a similar-sounding wonder in Syria. When the Serapeum at Alexandria was destroyed, and for many centuries afterwards, chroniclers wrote that an iron Helios had hung magnetically inside. In the Middle Ages, reports of such false miracles multiplied, appearing in Muslim accounts of Christian and Hindu idolatry, as well as Christian descriptions of the tomb of Muhammad. A Christian levitation miracle involving saints’ relics also emerged. Yet magnetic suspension could be represented as miraculous in itself, representing lost higher knowledge, as in the latest and easternmost tradition concerning Konark’s\udruined temple. \udThe levitating monument, first found in classical antiquity, has undergone many cultural and epistemological changes in its long and varied history.
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机译：静态悬浮是一种具有形而上学含义的奇迹，其悠久的历史以前尚未被绘制出来。首先，老普林尼（Pliny the Elder）报告了一位建筑师计划用磁力悬挂铁雕像，后来的编译器安培里乌斯（Ampelius）提到了叙利亚听起来相似的奇迹。当亚历山大大帝的圣殿被摧毁时，以及许多世纪之后，编年史家写道，太阳神铁已经磁性地悬挂在里面。在中世纪，穆斯林对基督教和印度教偶像崇拜的描述以及对穆罕默德墓的基督教描述都出现了这种错误奇迹的报道。也出现了涉及圣人遗迹的基督教悬浮奇迹。然而，磁悬浮本身可以被表示为奇迹，代表失去了更高的知识，就像在有关Konark破庙的最新和最东端的传统中一样。 \ ud这座悬浮的纪念碑，最早发现于古代，在其悠久而多样的历史中经历了许多文化和认识论的变化。
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