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    De Magnete, Magneticisque Corporibus, et de Magno Magnete Tellure (On the Magnet and Magnetic Bodies, and on That Great Magnet the Earth) is a scientific...
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    the manuscripts of it Epistola Petri Peregrini de Maricourt ad Sygerum de Foucaucourt, militem, de magnete ("Letter of Peter Peregrinus of Maricourt to...
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    method of university teaching. He is remembered today largely for his book De Magnete (1600). A unit of magnetomotive force, also known as magnetic potential...
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    supernatural and occult, until about 1600 when William Gilbert published his De Magnete. The first incontestable reference to a "magnetized needle" in Chinese...
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    philosophy and the scholastic method of university teaching. His book De Magnete was written in 1600, and he is regarded by some as the father of electricity...
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    by the electrons themselves. In 1600, William Gilbert proposed, in his De Magnete, that electricity and magnetism, while both capable of causing attraction...
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    Epistola Petri Peregrini de Maricourt ad Sygerum de Foucaucourt Militem de Magnete, which is often shortened to Epistola de magnete, is dated 1269 C.E. During...
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    Porta. In 1600, William Gilbert published his De Magnete, Magneticisque Corporibus, et de Magno Magnete Tellure (On the Magnet and Magnetic Bodies, and...
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    direction. Gilbert later reported his findings in De Magnete, Magneticisque Corporibus, et de Magno Magnete Tellure, published in 1600. Kristian Birkeland...
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    Physica (1726) Dissertationes physicae experimentalis et geometricae de magnete (1729) Tentamina experimentorum naturalium in Accademia del Cimento (1731)...
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