GILBERT, WILLIAM 1 |
England, 1540-1603, |
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wrote the pioneering work on magnetism; designed a dip-needle; worked with Blundeville, Briggs and Edward Wright on the problems of navigation; physician. |
Colchester; Wingfield House, St. Peter's Hill, London (1596-97); Royal College of Physicians, London. |
Taylor 1(31); Dawson Cat.; DNB; DSB. |
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