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William Gilbert: forgotten genius

Nov 1, 2003

The revolutionary thinker William Gilbert, who died 400 years ago this month, was largely responsible for creating the science of magnetism. David Tilley and Stephen Pumfrey believe that his achievements deserve to be much more widely recognized

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