 Gilbert, physician to both Elizabeth I and James I of England. Gilbert spent 17 years experimenting with magnetism and, to a lesser extent, electricity. He assembled the results of his experiments and all of the available knowledge on magnetism in the...  Makers of Science: Electricity & Magnetism - Page 6by Dorothy Mabel Turner - 1927 - 184 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Dorothy Mabel Turner - 1927 - 208 pages
...century, compasses regularly mounted on compass cards were in general use (Fig. 3). FIG. 3. — COMPASS CARD OF CECCO D'ASCOLI (1521). / § 3. William Gilbert...reliable conclusions as to properties of magnets and of Fie. 4. — ONE OF GILBERT'S LODESTONES. the earth. He points out that every piece of lodestone has... | |
 | Morris Kline - 1985 - 270 pages
...study of magnetism was made by William Gilbert (1540-1603), court physician to Queen Elizabeth. His On the Magnet and Magnetic Bodies and on the Great Magnet, the Earth (1600) is still a clearly readable account of simple experiments that proved, among other things, that... | |
 | Daniel Garber, Michael Ayers - 1998 - 992 pages
...immaterial causes. William Gilbert writes a book, full of his empirical discoveries, De magnete, magnetisque corporibus, et de magno magnete tellure (On the magnet and magnetic bodies and the great magnet, the earth); but he subtitles it 'a new physics, demonstrated with many arguments... | |
 | Jose Wudka - 2006 - 307 pages
...appointed physician to Queen Elizabeth I, and upon her death in 1603 to King James I. His main work, De Magnete, Magneticisque Corporibus, et de Magno Magnete Tellure (On the Magnet, Magnetic Bodies, and the Great Magnet of the Earth) published in 1600, became the standard work throughout... | |
 | Nicholas Collins, Julio d' Escrivan Rincón - 2007 - 246 pages
...sixteenth/seventeenth-century scientist interested in these ideas. In 1600, William Gilbert published De Magnete, Magneticisque Corporibus, et de Magno...Tellure (On the Magnet and Magnetic Bodies, and on That Great Magnet the Earth) which contains the first discussion of an 'electric force'. This was static... | |
 | Sir James Hopwood Jeans - 1951 - 412 pages
...outstanding event was the publication of Gilbert's De Magnete (p. 141) in 1600. Its full title was De Magnete magneticisque Corporibus et de magno Magnete...Tellure ('On the Magnet and Magnetic Bodies, and on that great Magnet the Earth'), but it dealt with more subjects than are enumerated in this title, providing... | |
 | 1981 - 404 pages
...Gilbert, "the father of magnetism". Gilbert was court physician to Queen Elizabeth. His great, work On the Magnet and Magnetic Bodies and on the Great Magnet the Earth, written in Latin, and published in 1600, was the first important scientific book to appear in England.... | |
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