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William Gilbert
English physician, physicist and natural philosopher (1544-1603)
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Physicians
Medicine
Astronomy
Physics
Electricity
Physicists
Magnetics
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12 works
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On the magnet / [William Gilbert].
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William Gilbert
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Date: 1958]
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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.
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William Gilbert
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Date: 1903
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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].
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Niccolò Cabeo
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Date: 1629
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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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William Gilbert
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Date: 1893
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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
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Date: 1600
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William Gilbert et la médecine au XVIe siècle / A. Herpin ; préface du Dr. G. Bourguignon.
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Herpin, A. (Alexandre), 1880-
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Date: 1946
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Latitude & the magnetic earth : the true story of Queen Elizabeth's most distinguished man of science / Stephen Pumfrey.
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Stephen Pumfrey
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Date: 2001
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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.
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Silvanus P. Thompson
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Date: [1903]
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William Gilbert demonstrating the magnet before Queen Elizabeth, 1598. Oil painting by Ernest Board.
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Board, Ernest, 1877-1934.
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Reference: 45908i
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The De magnete of William Gilbert / [Duane Henry DuBose Roller].
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Duane Henry DuBose Roller
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Date: 1959
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Silvanus P. Thompson
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Magnetics
History, 16th Century
Magnetics
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