See also:- GILBERT
- GILBERT (KINGSMILL) ISLANDS
- GILBERT (or GYLBERDE), WILLIAM (1544-1603)
- GILBERT, ALFRED (1854– )
- GILBERT, ANN (1821-1904)
- GILBERT, GROVE KARL (1843– )
- GILBERT, J
- GILBERT, JOHN (1810-1889)
- GILBERT, MARIE DOLORES ELIZA ROSANNA [" LOLA MONTEZ "] (1818-1861)
- GILBERT, NICOLAS JOSEPH LAURENT (1751–1780)
- GILBERT, SIR HUMPHREY (c. 1539-1583)
- GILBERT, SIR JOSEPH HENRY (1817-1901)
- GILBERT, SIR WILLIAM SCHWENK (1836– )
GILBERT (or GYLBERDE), See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
WILLIAM (1544-1603)
, the most distinguished See also:man of See also:science in See also:England during the reign of See also:Queen See also:Elizabeth, and the See also:father of electric and magnetic science, was a member of an See also:ancient See also:Suffolk See also:family, See also:long See also:resident in See also:Clare, and was See also:born on the 24th of May 1544 at See also:Colchester, where his father, Hierome See also:- GILBERT
- GILBERT (KINGSMILL) ISLANDS
- GILBERT (or GYLBERDE), WILLIAM (1544-1603)
- GILBERT, ALFRED (1854– )
- GILBERT, ANN (1821-1904)
- GILBERT, GROVE KARL (1843– )
- GILBERT, J
- GILBERT, JOHN (1810-1889)
- GILBERT, MARIE DOLORES ELIZA ROSANNA [" LOLA MONTEZ "] (1818-1861)
- GILBERT, NICOLAS JOSEPH LAURENT (1751–1780)
- GILBERT, SIR HUMPHREY (c. 1539-1583)
- GILBERT, SIR JOSEPH HENRY (1817-1901)
- GILBERT, SIR WILLIAM SCHWENK (1836– )
Gilbert, became See also:recorder
.
Educated at Colchester school, he entered St See also:John's See also:College, See also:Cambridge, in 1558, and after taking the degrees of B.A. and M.A. in due course, graduated M.D. in 1569, in which See also:year he was elected a See also:senior See also:fellow of his college
.
Soon afterwards he See also:left Cambridge, and after spending three years in See also:Italy and other parts of See also:Europe, settled in 1573 in See also:London, where he practised as a physician with " See also:great success and See also:applause." He was admitted to the College of Physicians probably about 1576, and from 1581 to 1590 was one of the censors
.
In 1587 he became treasurer, holding the See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office till 1592, and in 1589 he was one of the See also:committee appointed to superintend the preparation of the See also:Pharmacopoeia Londinensis which the college in that year decided to issue, but which did not actually appear till 1618
.
In 1597 he was again chosen treasurer, becoming at the same See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time consiliarius, and in 1599 he succeeded to the See also:presidency
.
Two years later he was appointed physician to Queen Elizabeth, with the usual emolument of £zoo a year; After this time he seems to have removed to the See also:court, vacating his See also:residence, See also:Wingfield See also:House, which was on See also:- PETER
- PETER (Lat. Petrus from Gr. irfpos, a rock, Ital. Pietro, Piero, Pier, Fr. Pierre, Span. Pedro, Ger. Peter, Russ. Petr)
- PETER (PEDRO)
- PETER, EPISTLES OF
- PETER, ST
Peter's See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
Hill, between Upper See also:Thames See also:Street and Little Knightrider Street, and See also:close to the house of the College of Physicians
.
On the See also:death of the queen in 1603 he was reappointed by her successor; but he did not. long enjoy the See also:honour, for he died, probably of the See also:plague, on the 30th of See also:November (loth of See also:December, N.S.)1603, either in London or in Colchester
.
He was buried in the latter See also:town, in the See also:chancel of See also:Holy Trinity See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church, where a See also:monument was erected to his memory
.
To the College of Physicians he left his books, globes, See also:instruments and minerals, but they were destroyed in the great See also:fire of London
.
Gilbert's See also:principal See also:work is his See also:treatise on See also:magnetism, entitled De magnete, magneticisque corporibus, et de magno magnete
tellure (London, 1600; later See also:editions—See also:Stettin, 1628, 1633;
See also:Frankfort, 1629, 1638)
.
This work, which embodied the results
of many years' See also:research, was distinguished by its strict adherence to the scientific method of investigation by experiment, and by the originality of its See also:matter, containing, as it does, an See also:account of the author's experiments on magnets and magnetical bodies and on See also:electrical attractions, and also his great conception that the See also:earth is nothing but a large magnet, and that it is this which explains, not only the direction of the magnetic See also:needle See also:north and See also:south, but also the variation and dipping or inclination of the needle
.
Gilbert's is therefore not merely the first, but the most important, systematic contribution to the sciences of See also:electricity and magnetism
.
A See also:posthumous work of Gilbert's was edited by his See also:brother, also called See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William, from two See also:MSS. in the See also:possession of See also:Sir William See also:Boswell; its See also:title is De mundo nostro sublunari philosophia nova (See also:Amsterdam, 1651)
.
He is the reputed inventor besides of two instruments to enable sailors " to find out the See also:latitude without seeing of See also:sun, See also:- MOON (a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Mond, Du. maan, Dan. maane, &c., and cognate with such Indo-Germanic forms as Gr. µlip, Sans. ma's, Irish mi, &c.; Lat. uses luna, i.e. lucna, the shining one, lucere, to shine, for the moon, but preserves the word i
- MOON, SIR RICHARD, 1ST BARONET (1814-1899)
moon or stars," an account of which is given in See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas Blondeville's Theoriques of the See also:Planets (London, 1602)
.
He was also the first See also:advocate of Copernican views in England, and he concluded that the fixed stars are not all at the same distance from the earth
.
It is a matter of great regret for the historian of See also:chemistry that Gilbert left nothing on that See also:branch of science, to which he was deeply devoted," attaining to great exactness therein." So at least says Thomas See also:Fuller, who in his Worthies of England prophesied truly how he would be afterwards known: " See also:Mahomet's See also:tomb at See also:Mecca," he says, "is said strangely to hang up, attracted by some invisible loadstone; but the memory of this See also:doctor will never fall to the ground, which his incomparable See also:book De magnete will support to eternity."
An See also:English See also:translation of the De magnete was published by P
.
F
.
Mottelay in 1893, and another, with notes by S
.
P
.
See also:Thompson, was issued by the Gilbert See also:Club of London in 1900
.
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