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	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 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		William Gilbert, the best place to start if you are new to Gilbert; includes a full biography with many previously unpublished discoveries.
	www.williamgilbert.com (135 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.
	cnx.org /content/m11985/latest (428 words)

	The Life of W.S. Gilbert (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
		William Schwenck Gilbert was born at 17 Southampton Street, Strand, London on the 18th of November, 1836, the son of William Gilbert (a retired naval surgeon) and Anne Gilbert.
		In 1873 he collaborated with Gilbert a Beckett on probably the most audacious play of his career, The Happy Land, a political satire which was briefly banned because it portrayed caricatures of Gladstone and two of his ministers.
		Gilbert dived in to help her, but died of heart failure in the middle of the lake.
	math.boisestate.edu /gas/html/gilbert_l.html (2555 words)

	Pepys' Diary: Terrella
		Gilbert Terrella, that is, a little, or rather a very little Earth: For it representeth in an exceeding small model (as it were) the admirable properties magneticall of the huge Globe of the earth” (op.
		Gilbert set great store by his invention of the terrella, since it led him to propound the true theory of the mariners’ compass.
		William Gilbert aka William of Colchester "set out to debunk magical notions of magnetism, yet in building an intellectual bridge between natural philosophy and emerging sciences, he did not completely abandon reference to the occult.
	www.pepysdiary.com /p/6792.php (621 words)

	Scientific Revolution - Printer-friendly - MSN Encarta
		For example, all the experimental techniques used by William Gilbert, author of what is generally acknowledged to be the earliest example of an experimental study of a natural phenomenon, De Magnete (1600; Of Magnets, Magnetic Bodies, and the Great Magnet of the Earth, 1890), were first developed by Petrus Peregrinus, a renowned medieval magus (magician).
		Vesalius’s emphasis upon a return to anatomical dissection, instead of reliance on Galen’s authority, led to major discoveries, including that of the circulation of the blood by William Harvey, who was taught by one of Vesalius’s successors at Padua.
		Author, The Scientific Revolution and the Origins of Modern Science and Moving Heaven and Earth: Copernicus and the Solar System.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /text_1461500585___10/Scientific_Revolution.html (1146 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 (1551 words)

	Kessinger Publishing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
		Gilbert, English dramatist and writer of humorous verse, is best remembered as librettist of the Gilbert and Sullivan comic operas.
		Gilbert wrote a large number of ballads for the magazine Fun using his pen-name Bab.
		It is one of the most admired of all the Gilbert and Sullivan operettas.
	www.kessingerpub.com /spider/Gilbert__William_S_.html (832 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)

	Madison Savoyards - About Us
		William Gilbert Senior had inherited a substantial fortune and retired at age twenty-five to pursue a range of interests including social issues and abnormal psychology as well as theater and opera.
		Gilbert was the dominant figure of the London theater world, as both prolific writer and innovative director: his authoritarian and even belligerent style in dealing with his casts concealed considerable sensitivity and even a degree of personal insecurity.
		Gilbert was enjoying life as the country squire (though troubled by an arthritic leg), but revivals of several of his plays stimulated thoughts of his own return to the London scene, and some new attempts at writing.
	www.madisonsavoyards.org /Public/reference/gsbio.html (21066 words)

	William Gilbert (author) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		William Gilbert, (May 20, 1804 – January 3, 1890) was a British novelist and naval surgeon, and the author of several popular fantasy stories in the 1860s and 1870s.
		The elder William Gilbert was born at Bishopstoke, Hants.
		Gilbert and his wife, Ann, were divorced in 1876, and he published little thereafter.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Gilbert_(author) (416 words)

	William Harvey (1578-1657) : Library of Congress Citations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
		Author: National Heart Institute (U.S.) Title: William Harvey, tercentenary commemoration, 1957; catalog of exhibit "William Harvey and the circulation of the blood," prepared by National Heart Institute and National Library of Medicine.
		Author: Harrison, William C. (William Clinton) Title: Dr. William Harvey and the discovery of circulation, by William C. Harrison.
		Author: Keele, Kenneth D. (Kenneth David), 190 Title: William Harvey; the man, the physician, and the scientist [by] Kenneth D. Keele.
	www.mala.bc.ca /~mcneil/cit/citlcharvey1.htm (1622 words)

	William Gilbert
		Gilbert's principal work is his treatise on magnetism, entitled De magnete, magneticisque corporibus, et de magno magnete tellure (London, 1600).
		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 manuscripts in the possession of Sir William Boswell; its title is De mundo nostro sublunari philosophia nova (Amsterdam, 1651).
	www.nndb.com /people/551/000087290 (478 words)

	SIR WILLIAM SCHWENK GI... - Online Information article about SIR WILLIAM SCHWENK GI... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
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		Byron, and Gilbert became from the first a valued contributor.
		metre Gilbert had shown himself consummate, as a dealer in quips and paradoxes and ludicrous dilemmas, unrivalled.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /GEO_GNU/GILBERT_SIR_WILLIAM_SCHWENK_183.html (1802 words)

	Gilbert and Sullivan
		Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan revolutionized the musical theatre, creating witty, melodic operettas that set a new standard for stage professionalism.
		In the show, the defendant is a roguish playboy, the pretty plaintiff flirts shamelessly with the all-male jury, and the amoral judge resolves things by marrying the girl himself.
		Gilbert and Sullivan were developing a form of British operetta that was quite unlike its continental predecessors.
	www.musicals101.com /gilbert.htm (709 words)

	William Gilbert (1540-1603) : Library of Congress Citations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
		Reproduction of the Burndy Library copy of Silvanus P. Thompson's translation, imprinted in London in 1900 at the Chiswick Press, with inclusion of his Notes on the De magnete of Dr. William Gilbert, privately printed in London in 1901.
		Author: Gilberd, Edward Browse, 1904- Title: William Gilbert: a biography and assessment, by E.B. Gilberd and Lord Penney.
		On the loadstone and magnetic bodies and on the great magnet, the earth / William Gilbert -- Dialogues concerning two new sciences / Galileo Galilei -- An anatomical disquisition on the motion of the heart and blood in animals.
	www.mala.bc.ca /~mcneil/cit/citlcgilbert1.htm (517 words)

	Gilbert,William Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
		W. Gilbert, renowned author of the "Savoy Operas," was also the creator of the "Bab Ballads"--"possibly the best comic verse--and surely the best illustrated--in the English language," according to James Ellis.
		The second edition of William Schabas's highly-praised study of the abolition of the death penalty.
		Gilbert, English dramatist and writer of humorous verse, is best remembered as librettist of the Gilbert and Sullivan comic operas.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Gilbert,William (1156 words)

	Amazon.fr : Gilbert and Sullivan: Livres en anglais: Michael Ffinch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
		True to an introductory remark in which he notes that he has "to accept Gilbert as our greatest writer of comic verse," Ffinch includes long passages of the writer's witty librettos--a welcome addition considering how often the words are muddled in amateur productions.
		Perhaps most interesting are the descriptions of the original cast members, showing how Gilbert and Sullivan sensitively shaped their works to meet the needs of their repertoire company.
		Gilbert's pettiness in arguing over production costs with the wily D'Oyly Carte, and Sullivan's interest in cultivating the producer's friendship in order to ensure that D'Oyly Carte would produce the ``serious'' opera that Sullivan dreamed of composing, led to the duo's ultimate downfall.
	www.amazon.fr /Gilbert-Sullivan-Michael-Ffinch/dp/029781236X (565 words)

	W. S. Gilbert - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gilbert insisted that his actors know their words perfectly and obey his stage directions, which was something quite new to many actors of the day.
		Gilbert sometimes had a strained working relationship with Sullivan, partly caused by the fact that each man saw himself allowing his work to be subjugated to the other's, and partly caused by the opposing personalities of the two—Gilbert was often confrontational and notoriously thin-skinned (though prone to acts of extraordinary kindness), while Sullivan eschewed conflict.
		Gilbert was, however, the first British writer ever to receive a knighthood for his plays alone—earlier dramatist knights, such as Sir William Davenant and Sir John Vanbrugh, were knighted for political and other services.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/W._S._Gilbert (4875 words)

	Kerjean Kronicle: William Gilbert's Blog: Family (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
		The story of Henry James desperately turning to writing for the Victorian stage in an attempt to become famous and rich is told with deftness and sensitivity by David Lodge.
		In fact, the mark of Lodge's achievement is that, for the most part, he himself is "invisible" as author (something which isn't true of his earlier, more "comic" novels, I feel).
		William Gilbert (author) (1804-1890), English novelist and surgeon
	williamgilbert.typepad.fr /kerjean_kronicle/family/index.html (986 words)

	More info about the poet: William S Gilbert - references bibliography
		William Schwenck Gilbert, born in London in 1836, was the son of a retired naval surgeon.
		William S. Gilbert - a librettist who was a collaborator with Sir Arthur Sullivan in a famous series of comic operettas (1836-1911) Synonyms:...
		Gilbert and Sullivan were a human musical composition team from Earth's late 19th century, made up of playwright/lyricist William S. Gilbert (1836 – 1911)...
	www.poemhunter.com /william-s-gilbert/resources/poet-33789/page-1 (683 words)

	Amazon.ca: Complete Plays Of Gilbert And Sullivan: Books: William Gilbert (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
		Gilbert's verses for Sullivan's music are the most fastidiously turned and inventively rhymed in all lyric comedy.
		As the Savoy Operas enter their second century on a swell of renewed popularity, Gilbert's reputation as the supreme wordsmith of light opera remains secure.
		This is a book that no lover of Gilbert and Sullivan, musical comedy, or indeed the English theater will want to be without.
	www.amazon.ca /Complete-Plays-Gilbert-Sullivan-William/dp/0393316882 (854 words)

	The Earth's Magnetosphere-- History
		The north-south pointing property of the compass needle was discovered in China around the year 1000, and in 1600 William Gilbert in London showed that this could be explained if the entire Earth was a huge magnet.
		As a model for the magnetic Earth he used a spherical magnet, which he called "terrella", the "little Earth." He moved a small compass over the surface of the terrella and demonstrated that it always pointed towards its magnetic poles.
		William Gilberts book "De Magnete" ("On the Magnet"), originally in Latin, is available in two English translations one of them (by Dover books) still in print.
	www-istp.gsfc.nasa.gov /Education/whms1.html (265 words)

	Amazon.fr : Gilbert and Sullivan: Interviews and Recollections: Livres en anglais: Harold Orel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
		Supplemented by Orel's extensive notes, the testimonials comprise a dual biography documenting the achievements of the men together and singly, and demonstrating that each had a successful career on his own.
		Gilbert, one of the major satirists of his day, was the author of numerous plays and poems, and Sullivan was a respected conductor and a composer of sacred music, songs and serious opera.
		The two emerge as very different personalities from each other: Gilbert had a biting wit and a domineering nature, while Sullivan was known for his easy-going manner and penchant for gambling.
	www.amazon.fr /Gilbert-Sullivan-Recollections-Harold-Orel/dp/0877454426 (258 words)

	William S. Gilbert Quotes
		15 Quotes for 'William S. Gilbert' in the Database.
		Things are seldom what they seem, Skim milk masquerades as cream.
		All Quotes are provided for educational purposes only and contributed by users.
	www.worldofquotes.com /author/William-S.-Gilbert/1/index.html (232 words)

	November 18 Birthdays: Sir William Gilbert — FactMonster.com
		While on the staff of the magazine Fun, he first became known as the author of Bab Ballads, amusing but often bitter and cynical poems, published in that magazine and collected in 1869.
		In 1871, Gilbert began his collaboration with Arthur Sullivan, lasting about 20 years, which resulted in the popular operettas for which they are famous.
		Gilbert's lyrics are those of a metrical craftsman.
	www.factmonster.com /birthday?date=11-18-2005 (291 words)

	400 Years of "De Magnete"
		In 1600, four hundred years ago William Gilbert, later physician to Queen Elizabeth I of England, published his great study of magnetism, "De Magnete"--"On the Magnet".
		However, you might have had to weigh this pleasure against the peril of bubonic plague, which usually spread in the city during summer months.
		This web site tells the story of Gilbert and his book--with glimpses of London in 1600, and with studies of magnetism before Gilbert.
	www-istp.gsfc.nasa.gov /earthmag/demagint.htm (498 words)

	Amazon.com: The Complete Gilbert & Sullivan: Librettos from All Fourteen Operettas (Complete & Unabridged): Books: ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
		By the time the piece had finished its run, "Gilbert and Sullivan" was well on the way to being, not two names, but a trade-mark.
		Gilbert and Sullivan DVD Sets — Get ten favorite Gilbert and Sullivan musicals on DVD.
		If you are a publisher or author and hold the digital rights to a book, you can make it available as an eBook on Amazon.com.
	www.amazon.com /Complete-Gilbert-Sullivan-Librettos-Unabridged/dp/1579120377 (842 words)

	Textbooks by William J Gilbert - Direct Textbook (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
		Authors: William Collins, Alan G. Foster, Berchie Gordon, Beatrice Moore-Harris, James Rath, Dora Swart, Leslie J. Winters
		Author: Frank (editor) (B. Chute; David Lorraine; William Byron Mowery; Jack Anderson; C. Lyn Fox; Ruth Gilbert Cochran; Walter Havighurst; C. Whittemore; Owen Grant; Russell Gordon Carter) Owen
		Authors: Charles Moore, Gilbert Grosvenor, James Bryce, J.R. Hildebrand
	www.directtextbook.com /author/william-j-gilbert (557 words)

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