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William Gilbert
Life and work
Gilbert was educated at St John's College, Cambridge; after gaining his MD from Cambridge in 1569, and a short spell as bursar of St John's College, he left to practice medicine in London. In 1600 he was elected President of the College of Physicians (not by that point granted a royal charter). From 1601 until his death in 1603, he was Elizabeth I's own physician, and James VI and I renewed his appointment.
His primary scientific work was De Magnete, Magneticisque Corporibus, et de Magno Magnete Tellure (On the Magnet and Magnetic Bodies, and on the Great Magnet the Earth) published in 1600. In this work, he describes many of his experiments with his model earth called the terrella. From these experiments, he concluded that the Earth was itself magnetic and that this was the reason compasses point north (previously, some believed that it was the pole star (Polaris) or a large magnetic island on the north pole that attracted the compass). He was the first to argue, correctly, that the centre of the Earth was iron, and he considered an important and related property of magnets was that they can be cut, each forming a new magnet with north and south poles.
The English word electricity was first used in 1646 by Sir Thomas Browne, derived from Gilbert's 1600 New Latin electricus, meaning "like amber". The term had been in use since the 1200s, but Gilbert was the first to use it to mean "like amber in its attractive properties". He recognized that friction with these objects removed a so-called effluvium, which would cause the attraction effect in returning to the object, though he did not realize that this substance (electric charge) was universal to all materials.
The electric effluvia differ much from air, and as air is the earth's effluvium, so electric bodies have their own distinctive effluvia; and each peculiar effluvium has its own individual power of leading to union, its own movement to its origin, to its fount, and to the body emitting the effluvium.
e Magnete, English translation by Paul Fleury Mottelay, 1893
In his book, he also studied static electricity using amber; amber is called elektron in Greek, so Gilbert decided to call its effect the electric force. He invented the first electrical measuring instrument, the electroscope, in the form of a pivoted needle he called the versorium.
Like others of his day, he believed that "crystal" (quartz) was an especially hard form of water, formed from compressed ice:
Lucid gems are made of water; just as Crystal, which has been concreted from clear water, not always by a very great cold, as some used to judge, and by very hard frost, but sometimes by a less severe one, the nature of the soil fashioning it, the humour or juices being shut up in definite cavities, in the way in which spars are produced in mines.
e Magnete, English translation by Silvanus Phillips Thompson, 1900
Gilbert argued that electricity and magnetism were not the same thing. For evidence, he (incorrectly) pointed out that, while electrical attraction disappeared with heat, magnetic attraction did not (although it is proven that magnetism does in fact become damaged and weakened with heat). It took James Clerk Maxwell to show that both effects were aspects of a single force: electromagnetism. Even then, Maxwell simply surmised this in his A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism after much analysis. By keeping clarity, Gilbert's strong distinction advanced science for nearly 250 years.
Gilbert's magnetism was the invisible force that many other natural philosophers, such as Kepler, seized upon, incorrectly, as governing the motions that they observed. While not attributing magnetism to attraction among the stars, Gilbert pointed out the motion of the skies was due to earth's rotation, and not the rotation of the spheres, 20 years before Galileo (see external reference below).
Gilbert died on 30 November 1603. His cause of death is thought to have been the bubonic plague.
See also
Scientific revolution
References
^ Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary, 2000, CD-ROM, version 2.5.
^ William Gilbert in Venn, J. & J. A., Alumni Cantabrigienses, Cambridge University Press, 10 vols, 19221958.
^ Niels H. de V. Heathcote (December 1967). "The early meaning of electricity: Some Pseudodoxia Epidemica - I". Annals of Science 23 (4): 261. doi:10.1080/00033796700203316.
^ Gilbert, William; P. Fleury Mottelay (1893). On the Lodestone and Magnetic Bodies. New York: John Wiley & Sons. pp. 79. http://books.google.com/books?id=UcoEAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA79. a translation of William Gilbert (1600) Die Magnete, London
^ William Gilbert, brief biography at National High Magnetic Field Laboratory
^ William Gilbert brief biography at bbc.co.uk
Further reading
Gilbert, William. (1600), De Magnete (About the Magnet). Translated 1893 from Latin to English by Paul Fleury Mottelay, Dover Books, paperback.
Leary, Warren E. (June 13, 2000). "Celebrating the Book That Ushered In the Age of Sciences ". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2000/06/13/science/celebrating-the-book-that-ushered-in-the-age-of-science.html?sec=health&&n=Top/News/Science/Topics/Physics. Retrieved 2009-03-27.
Pumfrey, Stephen; Tilley, David (November 2003). "William Gilbert: Forgotten Genius". Physics World.
Pumfrey, Stephen (2002). Latitude & the Magnetic Earth. Icon Books.
Shipley, Brian C. (August 2003). "Gilbert, Translated: Silvanus P. Thompson, the Gilbert Club, and the Tercentenary Edition of De Magnete". Canadian Journal o69 f History. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3686/is_200308/ai_n9252195.
External links
The Galileo Project biography of William Gilbert.
On the Magnet Translation of De Magnete by Silvanus Thompson for the Gilbert Club, London 1900. Full text, free to read and search. Go to page 9 and read Gilbert saying the earth revolves leading to the motion of the skies.
The Great Magnet, the Earth website hosted by NASA Commemorating the 400th anniversary of "De Magnete" by William Gilbert of Colchester.
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