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Description Illustration from the translator's notes in On the Magnet, etc. (1900). Taken from Cornelius van Kiel's work Viridarium Moralis Philosophiæ, per Fabulas Animalibus brutis attributas traditæ, etc. (Coloniæ, 1594), it is the pattern for this woodcut in Gilbert's De Magnete.
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Source On the Magnet, etc., available freely at Project Gutenberg
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William Gilbert  (1544–1603)  wikidata:Q192706 s:en:Author:William Gilbert (1544-1603) q:en:William Gilbert (astronomer)
 
William Gilbert
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William Gilberd
Description English philosopher, physician, engineer, physicist, astronomer and naturalist
physician to Elizabeth I and James I and scientific researcher into magnetism and electricity
Date of birth/death 24 May 1544 Edit this at Wikidata 10 December 1603
Location of birth/death Colchester London
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