Philosopher

William Gilbert (physicist)

Overview

English physician, physicist and natural philosopher (1544-1603)

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Ideas William Gilbert (physicist) discusses

• De revolutionibus orbium coelestium
• Francis Bacon
• Johannes Kepler
• Novum Organum
• London
• William Whewell
• James Clerk Maxwell
• Galileo Galilei
• Aristotelianism
• Nicolaus Copernicus
• Natural philosophy
• Celestial spheres
• Scholasticism
• Kingdom of England
• Royal Society
• De Magnete

Place in the tradition

Part of Cosmology.

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