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May 20, 2024 · William Gilbert (born May 24, 1544, Colchester, Essex, England—died November 30 [December 10, New Style], 1603, London?) was a pioneer researcher into magnetism who became the most distinguished man of science in England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. Educated as a physician, Gilbert settled in London and began to practice in 1573.
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William Gilbert (/ ˈ ɡ ɪ l b ər t /; 24 May 1544? – 30 November 1603), also known as Gilberd, was an English physician, physicist and natural philosopher. He passionately rejected both the prevailing Aristotelian philosophy and the Scholastic method of university teaching.
William Gilbert. William Gilbert was an English physician and natural philosopher who wrote a six-volume treatise that compiled all of the information regarding magnetism and electricity known at the time. Entitled De Magnete, Magneticisque Corporibus, et de Magno Magnete Tellure ("On the Magnet, Magnetic Bodies, and the Great Magnet of the ...
- Career as A Physician
- Court Physician
- Research in Magnetism
- Relating The Cosmos to The Power of The Magnet
- Electricity
- Gilbert’s Writings
William Gilbert came from a middle-class family, his father was a lawyer (recorder) and citizen of Colchester. William Gilbert was the oldest of the five children from his first marriage (his father married twice). Gilbert studied from 1558 at St John’s College in Cambridge with the Bachelor’s degree (A.B.) in 1561 and the Magister artium in 1564 a...
In 1588 he was one of the four doctors at the College who, on behalf of the government, cared for the health of the Royal Navy. In 1600 he became President of the Royal College of Physicians, having held official positions there since 1582 and collaborated on their Pharmacopeia. In 1600 he received the post of Court Physician from Queen Elizabeth I...
To his most important works belongs De Magnete, Magneticisque Corporibus, et de Magno Magnete Tellure (On the Magnet and Magnetic Bodies, and on the Great Magnet the Earth). It is the first summary treatment of magnetism since Petrus Peregrinus de Maricourt in the 13th century. In this work, published in 1600, Gilbert described many of his experime...
Like Peregrinus, Gilbert believed that rotation was one of the magnetic movements and that a balanced spherical magnet would rotate. In the sixth book of his De Magnete, in which he transferred his magnetic philosophy to the cosmos, he argued that the daily rotation of the earth was due to magnetism. He rejected the idea of a fixed star sphere with...
On this day, it is assumed that the term electricity was first used by Sir Thomas Browne in 1646, probably derived from Gilbert’s 1600 New Latin electricus, meaning “like amber”. He recognized that friction with these objects removed a so-called “effluvium”, which would cause the attraction effect in returning to the object, though he did not reali...
A collection of Gilbert’s unfinished writings was collected in 1651 by his half-brother William Gilbert of Melford under the title De Mundo Nostro Sublunari Philosophia Nova (New Philosophy about our sublunar world) and were known for example to Francis Bacon and Thomas Harriot. They were published in Amsterdam in 1651. It was unfinished and the fi...
Gilbert, William1544–1603English physicianand scientist. T he English physician William Gilbert earned fame for his studies in electricity and magnetism. His pioneering experiments in these fields marked the dawn of a new era in science. Born in Colchester, England, Gilbert received his medical degree in 1569 and began practicing medicine in ...
Dec 1, 2022 · Abstract. One of the most important components of early modern science was the experiment. Advocates of the “new sciences” used experiments as indisputable evidence in controversies with their opponents and as powerful arguments against authoritative texts. Among the first early modern scientific works to systematically and successfully use experiments as parts of the central argumentation ...
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