William Gilbert
by National Library Of Medicine
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William Gilbert
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National Library Of Medicine
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William Gilbert (1544-1603), English physician and physicist. In 1600 Gilbert published 'De Magnete' (Concerning Magnets), a pioneering study in magnetism, which established his reputation as a physicist. One of Gilbert's great contributions was to suggest that the Earth was a large magnetic sphere and that a compass needle points not to the heavens, but to the magnetic poles on the earth. Joseph Priestly regarded him as 'the father of modern electricity' and Galileo considered him to be the founder of experimentalism. Gilbert was also physician to Queen Elizabeth I. This 1796 engraving by Clamp is after a portrait by Harding in the Bodleian Library, Oxford.
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