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Show moreEntered in the register of the Stationers' Company on 7 December 1599. Printer's device on title page. Coat of arms of William Gilbert on title page verso. Roman type. Decorative headpieces, tailpieces and initial letters. Errata: p. 240.; ''De magnete'', which influenced Bacon, Galileo, Kepler and Newton, has been described as the'"first major original contribution to science that was published in England."' Gilbert's work on magnetic attraction, the existence of electricity and the movements of the compass was pioneering. The last section of ''De magnete'' is devoted to the system of the universe, and was influenced by Giordano Bruno. Gilbert was physician to Elizabeth I. (John L. Thornton and R.I.J. Tully, "Scientific Books, Libraries and Collectors" ; "Dictionary of National Biography", XXI, p. 338).
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