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William Gilbert: his monument. Line engraving by G. Vertue after J. Deane.

William Gilbert et la médecine au XVIe siècle / A. Herpin ; préface du Dr. G. Bourguignon.

Latitude & the magnetic earth : the true story of Queen Elizabeth's most distinguished man of science / Stephen Pumfrey.

Gilbert, physician : a note prepared for the three-hundredth anniversary of the death of William Gilbert of Colchester, president of the Royal college of physicians, & physician to Queen Elizabeth / by Silvanus P. Thompson, F.R.S.

William Gilbert demonstrating the magnet before Queen Elizabeth, 1598. Oil painting by Ernest Board.

The De magnete of William Gilbert / [Duane Henry DuBose Roller].

Gvilielmi Gilberti Colcestrensis, medici londinensis, De magnete, magneticisqve corporibvs, et de magno magnete tellure; physiologia noua plurimis et argumentis, et experimentis demonstrata / [William Gilbert].

On the magnet / [William Gilbert].

Gilbert of Colchester, father of electrical science : a reprint of the chapter on electrics from De magnete, lib. 2 / with notes by Silvanus P. Thompson.

Philosophia magnetica in qua magnetis natura penitus explicatur, et omnium quae hoc lapide cernuntur causae propriae afferuntur: nova etiam pyxis construitur, quae propriam poli elevationem, cum suo meridiano, ubique demonstrat ... ad Ludovicum XIII. Galliarum, et Navarrae regem Christianissimum / [Nicolò Cabei].

On the loadstone and magnetic bodies, and on the great magnet the earth : A new physiology, demonstrated with many arguments and experiments / A translation by P. Fleury Mottelay.

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Gilbert, William, 1544-1603

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On the magnet / [William Gilbert].

Gilbert of Colchester, father of electrical science : a reprint of the chapter on electrics from De magnete, lib. 2 / with notes by Silvanus P. Thompson.

On the loadstone and magnetic bodies, and on the great magnet the earth : A new physiology, demonstrated with many arguments and experiments / A translation by P. Fleury Mottelay.

Gvilielmi Gilberti Colcestrensis, medici londinensis, De magnete, magneticisqve corporibvs, et de magno magnete tellure; physiologia noua plurimis et argumentis, et experimentis demonstrata / [William Gilbert].