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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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    Epistola Petri Peregrini de Maricourt ad Sygerum de Foucaucourt, militem, de magnete ("Letter of Peter Peregrinus of Maricourt to Sygerus of Foucaucourt, Soldier...
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    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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    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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    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 was...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    Maricourt ad Sygerum de Foucaucourt Militem de Magnete, which is often shortened to Epistola de magnete, is dated 1269 C.E. During a lecture demonstration...
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    earliest recorded experiences with electricity. In his 1600 treatise De Magnete, the English scientist William Gilbert coined the Neo-Latin term electrica...
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    word for amber dates to the 1600 (Latin electricus "amber-like", in De Magnete by William Gilbert). Heilbron, J.L. (1979). Electricity in the 17th and...
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    on William Gilbert's theory of the magnetic soul of the Earth from De Magnete (1600) and on his own work on optics. Kepler supposed that the motive power...
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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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    contributions; William Gilbert published his seminal study of magnetism, De Magnete, in 1600. Substantial advancements were made in the fields of cartography...
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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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    diaframma vibrante e in un magnete elettrizzato da un filo a spirale che lo avvolge. Vibrando, il diaframma altera la corrente del magnete. Queste alterazioni...
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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 was...
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     79. a translation by P. Fleury Mottelay of William Gilbert (1600) Die Magnete, London Fleming, John Ambrose (1911). "Electroscope" . In Chisholm, Hugh...
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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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    Gasser. He prepared the first edition (Augsburg, 1558) of the Epistola de magnete of Pierre de Maricourt. Other works include: Historiarum et Chronicorum...
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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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    scholar Pierre de Maricourt describes in his experimental study Epistola de magnete (1269) three different compass designs he has devised for the purpose of...
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    Historia animalium by Conrad Gessner. 1600. De Magnete, Magneticisque Corporibus et de Magno Magnete Tellure by William Gilbert. 1609. Astronomia nova...
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  • Epigrams Lesser poems: Phoenix, Epithalamium Palladio et Celerinae; de Magnete; de Crystallo cui aqua inerat Hall, J.B.. Claudian, De raptu Proserpinae...
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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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