English physician, physicist and natural philosopher (1544-1603)

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William Gilbert. Stipple engraving by R. Clamp, 1796, after S. Harding.

William Gilbert: his monument. Line engraving by G. Vertue after J. Deane.

William Gilbert demonstrating the magnet before Queen Elizabeth, 1598. Oil painting by Ernest Board.

William Gilbert et la médecine au XVIe siècle / A. Herpin ; préface du Dr. G. Bourguignon.

Latitude & the magnetic earth : the true story of Queen Elizabeth's most distinguished man of science / Stephen Pumfrey.

Gilbert, physician : a note prepared for the three-hundredth anniversary of the death of William Gilbert of Colchester, president of the Royal college of physicians, & physician to Queen Elizabeth / by Silvanus P. Thompson, F.R.S.

The De magnete of William Gilbert / [Duane Henry DuBose Roller].

Gvilielmi Gilberti Colcestrensis, medici londinensis, De magnete, magneticisqve corporibvs, et de magno magnete tellure; physiologia noua plurimis et argumentis, et experimentis demonstrata / [William Gilbert].

On the magnet / [William Gilbert].

Gilbert of Colchester, father of electrical science : a reprint of the chapter on electrics from De magnete, lib. 2 / with notes by Silvanus P. Thompson.

Philosophia magnetica in qua magnetis natura penitus explicatur, et omnium quae hoc lapide cernuntur causae propriae afferuntur: nova etiam pyxis construitur, quae propriam poli elevationem, cum suo meridiano, ubique demonstrat ... ad Ludovicum XIII. Galliarum, et Navarrae regem Christianissimum / [Nicolò Cabei].

On the loadstone and magnetic bodies, and on the great magnet the earth : A new physiology, demonstrated with many arguments and experiments / A translation by P. Fleury Mottelay.

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On the magnet / [William Gilbert].

Gilbert of Colchester, father of electrical science : a reprint of the chapter on electrics from De magnete, lib. 2 / with notes by Silvanus P. Thompson.

On the loadstone and magnetic bodies, and on the great magnet the earth : A new physiology, demonstrated with many arguments and experiments / A translation by P. Fleury Mottelay.

Gvilielmi Gilberti Colcestrensis, medici londinensis, De magnete, magneticisqve corporibvs, et de magno magnete tellure; physiologia noua plurimis et argumentis, et experimentis demonstrata / [William Gilbert].

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William Gilbert

Images from the collections

Images by William Gilbert

Images featuring William Gilbert

Works from the collections

On the magnet / [William Gilbert].

Gilbert of Colchester, father of electrical science : a reprint of the chapter on electrics from De magnete, lib. 2 / with notes by Silvanus P. Thompson.

On the loadstone and magnetic bodies, and on the great magnet the earth : A new physiology, demonstrated with many arguments and experiments / A translation by P. Fleury Mottelay.

Gvilielmi Gilberti Colcestrensis, medici londinensis, De magnete, magneticisqve corporibvs, et de magno magnete tellure; physiologia noua plurimis et argumentis, et experimentis demonstrata / [William Gilbert].

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