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	BBC - History - William Gilbert (1544 - 1603)
		Gilbert was an English physician and scientist, the first man to research the properties of the lodestone (magnetic iron ore), publishing his findings in the influential De Magnete ('The Magnet').
		Gilbert's findings suggested that magnetism was the soul of the Earth, and that a perfectly spherical lodestone, when aligned with the Earth's poles, would spin on its axis, just as the Earth spins on its axis over a period of 24 hours.
		Gilbert was in fact debunking the traditional cosmologists' belief that the Earth was fixed at the centre of the universe, and he provided food for thought for Galileo, who eventually came up with the proposition that the Earth revolves around the Sun.
	www.bbc.co.uk /history/historic_figures/gilbert_william.shtml (274 words)

	The Galileo Project \| Science \| William Gilbert
		William Gilbert was born in Colchester, England, into a middle class family of some wealth.
		Gilbert set up a medical practice in London in the 1570s and became a member of the Royal College of Physicians (the body that regulated the practice of medicine in London and vicinity).
		In Gilbert's animistic explanation, magnetism was the soul of the Earth and a perfectly spherical lodestone, when aligned with the Earth's poles, would spin on its axis, just as the Earth spins on its axis in 24 hours.
	es.rice.edu /ES/humsoc/Galileo/People/gilbert.html (477 words)

	IEC - Techline > William Gilbert (Site not responding. Last check: )
		William Gilbert was born in Colchester, England, and educated in mathematics and medicine at St. John's College, Cambridge.
		Gilbert suggested that magnetism was the soul of the Earth: when aligned with the Earth's poles, a perfectly spherical magnet would spin on its axis in 24 hours.
		Gilbert’s geomagnetic theory offered the first satisfactory explanation of the complex behaviour of the nautical compass – a key matter for an era of global exploration in which reliable methods of navigation were vital for maritime commerce and warfare.
	www.iec.ch /cgi-bin/tl_to_htm.pl?section=technology&item=83 (243 words)

	William Gilbert
		William Gilbert was born in Colchester, England, into a middle class family of some wealth.
		Gilbert set up a medical practice in London in the 1570s and became a member of the Royal College of Physicians (the body that regulated the practice of medicine in London and vicinity).
		In Gilbert's animistic explanation, magnetism was the soul of the Earth and a perfectly spherical lodestone, when aligned with the Earth's poles, would spin on its axis, just as the Earth spins on its axis in 24 hours.
	www.corrosion-doctors.org /Biographies/GilbertBio.htm (469 words)

	William Gilbert Home Page
		William Gilbert (1763-1825?), theosophist, poet and astrologer, is best known as the author of The Hurricane (1796).
		Gilbert published this poem in Bristol where he briefly associated with the poets Coleridge, Wordsworth and Southey, who all viewed him and his writing with a mixture of admiration, affection and alarm.
		William Gilbert, the best place to start if you are new to Gilbert: includes a biography with many previously unpublished discoveries.
	www.williamgilbert.com (134 words)

	GILBERT Rugby - home (Site not responding. Last check: )
		GILBERT has been manufacturing highest quality rugby balls since William Gilbert first supplied Rugby School in 1823.
		With the advent of new materials, GILBERT pioneered and perfected the use of new synthetic technologies, once again moving to the forefront of match ball development.
		The modern GILBERT is, however, much more than just balls: over the last decade, the company has expanded into all rugby product sectors and is now one of the few brands capable of equipping a club with all of their rugby needs.
	www.gilbertrugby.com /graysint/gt.nsf/page/home (147 words)

	William Gilbert - LoveToKnow 1911
		Gilbert's principal work is his treatise on magnetism, entitled De magnete, magneticisque corporibus, et de magno magnete tellure (London, 1600; later editions - Stettin, 1628, 1633; Frankfort, 1629, 1638).
		Gilbert's is therefore not merely the first, but the most important, systematic contribution to the sciences of electricity and magnetism.
		A posthumous work of Gilbert's was edited by his brother, also called William, from two MSS.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /William_Gilbert (466 words)

	William Gilbert
		Gilbert dedicated it to those who look for knowledge "not only in books but in things themselves." The growing interest in compass navigation may have influenced Gilbert somewhat because he wrote De Magnete at the time the English were preparing to meet the Spanish Armada.
		Gilbert, a student of medicine, received his M.D. at Cambridge University in 1569, and by themid-1570s was a prominent physician in London.
		Gilbert realized that lines joining points of constant magnetic declination (the angle between the magnetic needle and the horizontal) were also lines of constant latitude on a sphere.
	www.rare-earth-magnets.com /magnet_university/william_gilbert.htm (634 words)

	§8. William Gilbert and Experimental Science. XIV. The Beginnings of English Philosophy. Vol. 4. Prose and Poetry: ...
		While these questions occupied the schools, William Gilbert, fellow of St. John’s college, Cambridge, 1561, president of the royal college of physicians, 1600, was engaged in the laborious and systematic pursuit of experiments on magnetism which resulted in the publication of the first great English work of physical science, De Magnete, magneticisque corporibus (1600).
		Gilbert expressed himself as decidedly as did Bacon afterwards on the futility of expecting to arrive at knowledge of nature by mere speculation or by a few vague experiments.
		Gilbert has been called “the first real physicist and the first trustworthy methodical experimenter.” 10 He was also the founder of the theory of magnetism and electricity; and he gave the latter its name, vis electrica.
	www.bartleby.com /214/1408.html (444 words)

	William Gilbert Summary
		The English physician and physicist William Gilbert (1544-1603), an investigator of electrical and magnetic phenomena, is principally noted for his "De magnete," one of the first scientific works based on observation and experiment.
		Gilbert introduced the idea of Earth as a giant spherical lodestone with magnetic poles (a term he introduced), an equator, and the ability to attract objects to itself.
		Gilbert's magnetism was the invisible force that many other natural philosophers, such as Kepler, seized upon, incorrectly, as governing the motions that they observed.
	www.bookrags.com /William_Gilbert (2260 words)

	"On the Magnet" by William Gilbert of Colchester
		Professionally, William Gilbert (1544-1603) was a distinguished physician, appointed in 1601 as physician to Queen Elizabeth I. The queen died two years later, and Gilbert himself perished not long afterwards from the plague, with which London was often afflicated.
		Gilbert accurately noted that cast iron was feebly magnetic, and that long iron rods had magnetic poles at their ends.
		Gilbert believed that the Earth's magnetism and its rotation had a common cause: the fact that magnetic north and astronomical north were so near to each other seemed too much of a coincidence.
	www.acemagnetics.com /onmabywigiof.html (1515 words)

	William Gilbert Biography \| World of Scientific Discovery
		William Gilbert was born in Colchester, Essex, England, on May 24, 1544.
		Gilbert discovered that there were other objects, such as rockcrystal and gems, that when rubbed behaved the same as amber.
		Gilbert's speculations in astronomy were far ahead of his time; he believed the stars were very large and distant.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/william-gilbert-wsd (593 words)

	Mr William Gilbert
		Courtesy: Steve Coombes, UK Mr William Gilbert, 47, was from a family whose roots were located in the small hamlet of Polladrass and the nearby village of Carleen in the parish of Breage, some three and a half miles to the north-west of the Cornish town of Helston.
		William spent his early years in Polladrass and, when he was aged 2, his sister, Mary was born.
		William was due to return to America in the March of 1912 but stalled his return wishing to wait for the maiden voyage of the Titanic.
	www.encyclopedia-titanica.org /biography.php?id=423&showcom=1 (1022 words)

	Adventures in CyberSound: Gilbert, William, Dr Sir
		Gilbert did not, however, express an opinion as to whether this rotating Earth was at the center of the universe or in orbit around the Sun.
		Gilbert also invented the electroscope* which detected electromagnetic energy in the body and was the first person to use the word "electricity","electric force" and "electric attraction" The unit of magnetomotive power is called the gilbert in his honour
		William Gilbert, physician to Queen Elizabeth I, wrote Concerning the Magnet to examine the legends and scientific facts associated with magnets, lodestones, amber, and other materials that possess natural powers to attract or repel.
	www.acmi.net.au /AIC/GILBERT_BIO.html (2467 words)

	William Gilbert.
		Gilbert was somewhat more in line with Jean Buridan (1300-1358) on motion, but Gilbert's motion is distinctly his own in concluding that his experiments proved his new theory of active bodies responding automatically in proportion to different emission signals they receive.
		Gilbert basically took all bodies as being simple robots that emitted signals and responded to signals, and this was understood at least by Newton who developed it for gravity, though many saw his effluvia signals as alchemist vapours.
		Gilbert's main weakness was that he was a poor mathematician and magnetism is one of the more complex phenomena, so his many measured experiments did not yield him the mathematical laws that Newton was to later develop in applying Gilbert's theory to gravity.
	www.new-science-theory.com /william-gilbert.html (2002 words)

	CIRL - Pioneers in Electricity and Magnetism: William Gilbert
		William Gilbert was an English physician and natural philosopher who wrote a six-volume treatise that compiled all the information regarding magnetism and electricity known at the time.
		Gilbert (which sometimes appears as Gilberde or Gylberde) was born in the town of Colchester located in Essex, England on May 24, 1544.
		Gilbert came to the conclusion that the Earth is magnetic, similar to the lodestone.
	www.magnet.fsu.edu /education/tutorials/pioneers/gilbert.html (633 words)

	William A. Gilbert, Ph.D. (Site not responding. Last check: )
		William A. Gilbert, John Kuriyan, Gregory A. Petsko and Dagmar Ringe Ponzi, "Mapping the Spatial Distribution of Protein Fluctuations by X-Ray Diffraction" In Structure and Dynamics: Nucleic Acids and Proteins, Eds.
		William A. Gilbert, Richard C. Lord, Gregory A. Petsko and Thomas J. Thamann, "Temperature Dependence of the Conformation of Crystalline Ribnuclease A from X-Ray Diffraction and Raman Spectroscopy", Jour.
		William A. Gilbert and Ben M. Dunn, "The Use of Quantitative Affinity Chromatography in the Determination of Dissociation Constants for Inhibitors of a-Chymotrypsin", Fed. Proc.
	bioinformatics.unh.edu /CV (1672 words)

	Tribute to William C. Gilbert
		William was assigned to the 27th Air Depot Group for service in New Guinea, arriving in Port Moresby on December 11, 1942.
		William entered the 13th General Hospital at Finchhaven, New Guinea in February 1945 for treatment of infectious eczema, called "jungle rot" by the airmen.
		William became a partner with his father, Jesse Gilbert, in his farming operation, which consisted of a grade A dairy and many acres of farming.
	www.wwiihistorycenter.org /gilbertwilliamtribute.htm (520 words)

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	William Gilbert
		William Gilbert (or William Gylberde) May 24, 1544, Colchester, England - December 10, 1603, London?, English physician to Elizabeth I and James I and scientific researcher into magnetism and electricity.
		His primary work was De Magnete, Magneticisque Corporibus, et de Magno Magnete Tellure (On the Magnet and Magnetic Bodies, and on That Great Magnet the Earth) published in 1600.
		A unit of magnetomotive force[?], also known as magnetic potential[?], is named the gilbert in his honor.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/wi/William_Gilbert.html (92 words)

	William Gilbert: forgotten genius (November 2003) - Physics World - PhysicsWeb
		Gilbert's research into magnetism, as well as his medical practice, led him - unusually for the time - to seek out navigators and skilled instrument makers, collating their magnetic data and discoveries about lodestones and compass needles.
		Gilbert used his leisure and status as a court physician to launch his attack on traditional university science of the Earth by the publication of De Magnete in 1600.
		Gilbert carried out many other experiments, including the study of spherical lodestones that were floated on water in small wooden boats.
	physicsweb.org /articles/world/16/11/2 (1910 words)

	William Gilbert: forgotten genius (November 2003) - Physics World - PhysicsWeb
		Gilbert's research into magnetism, as well as his medical practice, led him - unusually for the time - to seek out navigators and skilled instrument makers, collating their magnetic data and discoveries about lodestones and compass needles.
		Gilbert used his leisure and status as a court physician to launch his attack on traditional university science of the Earth by the publication of De Magnete in 1600.
		Gilbert carried out many other experiments, including the study of spherical lodestones that were floated on water in small wooden boats.
	www.physicsweb.org /article/world/16/11/2 (1910 words)

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