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27 de may. de 2014 · William Gilbert (que en ocasiones aparece como William Gilberd) nació en Colchester, Essex, en 1544. A los catorce años ingresó en el St John’s College de Cambridge donde obtuvo su B.A. (Bachelor of Arts) en 1560, su M.A. (Master of Arts) en el 1564 y su doctorado cinco años después.Durante su formación se vió inmerso en el estudio de la ciencia ortodoxa imperante basada en la ...
1 de nov. de 2003 · 01 Nov 2003. The revolutionary thinker William Gilbert, who died 400 years ago this month, was largely responsible for creating the science of magnetism. David Tilley and Stephen Pumfrey believe that his achievements deserve to be much more widely recognized. Master thinker This late-18th-century engraving, made from an original that is now ...
William Gilbert (also Gilberd) was born on 24 May 1544 into a prosperous family in Colchester, Essex. He was educated at Cambridge University, where he received a BA, MA and MD, after which he ...
24 de may. de 2020 · William Gilbert was the oldest of the five children from his first marriage (his father married twice). Gilbert studied from 1558 at St John’s College in Cambridge with the Bachelor’s degree (A.B.) in 1561 and the Magister artium in 1564 and was awarded a doctorate in medicine in 1569 (M.D.), after which he became a Senior Fellow of his College.
26 de jul. de 2019 · English scientist, William Gilbert first coined the term "electricity" from the Greek word for amber. Gilbert wrote about the electrification of many substances in his treatise, "De Magnete, Magneticisique Corporibus." He was also the first to use the terms "electric force," "magnetic pole," and "electric attraction."
1 de jun. de 2000 · Gilbert understood polarity, which in itself is commendable, given the ignorance of the time: “As Albertus Magnus says, there are two species of loadstones, one pointing north, the other south” (B1, C1, 13). Gilbert was sure that the Earth was a giant lodestone and used the Earth as a primary reference, defining the north (magnetic) pole of a needle, or of a nail floating on a piece of ...
William Gilbert foi um renomado cientista do século XVI, nascido em Colchester, Inglaterra, em 1544. Ele é conhecido principalmente por suas contribuições para a ciência magnética e elétrica, que revolucionaram o entendimento desse fenômeno na época. Uma de suas principais contribuições foi a publicação da obra “De Magnete”, em ...
