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    De Magnete, Magneticisque Corporibus, et de Magno Magnete Tellure (On the Magnet and Magnetic Bodies, and on That Great Magnet the Earth) is a scientific...
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    the manuscripts of it Epistola Petri Peregrini de Maricourt ad Sygerum de Foucaucourt, militem, de magnete ("Letter of Peter Peregrinus of Maricourt to...
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    method of university teaching. He is remembered today largely for his book De Magnete (1600). A unit of magnetomotive force, also known as magnetic potential...
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    supernatural and occult, until about 1600 when William Gilbert published his De Magnete. The first incontestable reference to a "magnetized needle" in Chinese...
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    philosophy and the scholastic method of university teaching. His book De Magnete was written in 1600, and he is regarded by some as the father of electricity...
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    by the electrons themselves. In 1600, William Gilbert proposed, in his De Magnete, that electricity and magnetism, while both capable of causing attraction...
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    Epistola Petri Peregrini de Maricourt ad Sygerum de Foucaucourt Militem de Magnete, which is often shortened to Epistola de magnete, is dated 1269 C.E. During...
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    direction. Gilbert later reported his findings in De Magnete, Magneticisque Corporibus, et de Magno Magnete Tellure, published in 1600. Kristian Birkeland...
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    Porta. In 1600, William Gilbert published his De Magnete, Magneticisque Corporibus, et de Magno Magnete Tellure (On the Magnet and Magnetic Bodies, and...
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    modern experimental approach to understanding the Earth's field began with de Magnete, a book published by William Gilbert in 1600. His experiments with a magnetic...
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  • Englished by T. Sainsbury, 1661 William Gilbert, De Magnete, Magneticisque Corporibus, et de Magno Magnete Tellure 1600 Sir Matthew Hale's Observat. touch...
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  • to amber's attractive properties by William Gilbert in his 1600 text De Magnete. The term came from the classical Latin electrum, 'amber', from the Greek...
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    compass (1269) The French scholar Pierre de Maricourt describes in his experimental study Epistola de magnete (1269) three different compass designs he...
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    ISBN 978-1-62055-598-9. Gilbert, William (1893). "Book 6, Chapter III". De Magnete. Translated by Mottelay, P. Fleury. (Facsimile). New York: Dover Publications...
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  • Ado About Nothing are published in London. William Gilbert publishes De Magnete, one of the first significant scientific books published in England, describing...
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    Physica (1726) Dissertationes physicae experimentalis et geometricae de magnete (1729) Tentamina experimentorum naturalium in Accademia del Cimento (1731)...
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    millennia until 1600, when the English scientist William Gilbert wrote De Magnete, in which he made a careful study of electricity and magnetism, distinguishing...
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    modern science. In 1600, William Gilbert release a publication titled De Magnete (1600) where he conducted series of experiments on both natural magnets...
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    originated in 1269 by Petrus Peregrinus de Maricourt. His work heavily influenced William Gilbert, whose 1600 work De Magnete spread the idea further. In the...
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    Triboelectric effect (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    first major scientific analysis was by William Gilbert in his publication De Magnete in 1600. He discovered that many more materials than amber such as sulphur...
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    research into electrical phenomena can be marked with the publication of De Magnete by the English scientist William Gilbert in 1600. In this book, there...
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  • giant magnet, by William Gilbert (1544–1603) in his six-book work De Magnete; De Magnete was known all over Europe, and was almost certainly an influence...
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    Revision of De Sapientia Veterum ('Wisdom of the Ancients', 1625) Inquisitio de Magnete ('Enquiries into Magnetism', 1625) Topica Inquisitionis de Luce et...
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    Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres. Book I, Chap 5–8. Gilbert, William (1893). De Magnete, On the Magnet and Magnetic Bodies, and on the Great Magnet the Earth...
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    temperature. That heating destroys magnetism was already described in De Magnete (1600): Iron filings, after being heated for a long time, are attracted...
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    physician and scientist William Gilbert's great work De Magnete, Magneticisque Corporibus, et de Magno Magnete Tellure (The Magnet, Magnetic Bodies, and the...
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    original on 27 April 2012. Gilbert, William (1893). "Book 6, Chapter III". De Magnete. Translated by Mottelay, P. Fleury. (Facsimile). New York: Dover Publications...
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  • Augusti De Bello Gothico ("On the Gothic War" of 402–403) Gigantomachy Epigrams Lesser poems: Phoenix, Epithalamium Palladio et Celerinae; de Magnete; de Crystallo...
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    Otto von Guericke (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    On the Magnet and Magnetic bodies and on the great magnet the Earth (De Magnete) published in 1600 and of the Jesuit Niccolo Cabeo's Philosophia Magnetica...
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    fields of Mercury and the Jovian planets. When William Gilbert published de Magnete in 1600, he concluded that the Earth is magnetic and proposed the first...
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