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Image number: RS.10433
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Title page of William Gilbert’s 'De Magnete'
Date
1628
Creator
Peter Rollos I (1579, German) , Engraver
Object type
Library reference
40920
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Dimensions
height (print): 230mm
width (print): 190mm
width (print): 190mm
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Description
Title page of the second edition (1628) of William Gilbert’s Tractatus sive physiologia nova de magnete, magneticisque corporibus et magno magnete tellure ... (Stettin: typis Gotzianis; sumptibus Ioh. Hallervordij).
William Gilbert (1544-1603) was a pioneering natural philosopher, physicist and physician, whose experimental studies were greatly admired by the founder Fellows of the Royal Society. De Magnete was his most important work; first published in 1600, it sets out Gilbert’s findings that the Earth is a large magnetic sphere, with an iron centre, and that compass needles point to the north magnetic pole.
William Gilbert (1544-1603) was a pioneering natural philosopher, physicist and physician, whose experimental studies were greatly admired by the founder Fellows of the Royal Society. De Magnete was his most important work; first published in 1600, it sets out Gilbert’s findings that the Earth is a large magnetic sphere, with an iron centre, and that compass needles point to the north magnetic pole.
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