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* William Gilbert publishes De Magnete, which describes the Earth's magnetic field and is the beginning of modern Geomagnetism.
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* 1603 – William Gilbert, English physicist and physician ( b. 1544 )
The first electrical engineer was probably William Gilbert who designed the versorium: a device that detected the presence of statically charged objects.
The scientist William Gilbert proposed, in his De Magnete ( 1600 ), that electricity and magnetism, while both capable of causing attraction and repulsion of objects, were distinct effects.
Electricity would remain little more than an intellectual curiosity for millennia until 1600, when the English scientist William Gilbert made a careful study of electricity and magnetism, distinguishing the lodestone effect from static electricity produced by rubbing amber.
During this century the English scientist William Gilbert spent 17 years experimenting with magnetism and, to a lesser extent, electricity.
In 1600, the English scientist William Gilbert returned to the subject in De Magnete, and coined the New Latin word electricus from ηλεκτρον ( elektron ), the Greek word for " amber ", which soon gave rise to the English words " electric " and " electricity.
Beckett was born at Hammersmith, United Kingdom, the eldest son of Gilbert Abbott à Beckett and the brother of Arthur William à Beckett.
In 1600, William Gilbert published his De Magnete, Magneticisque Corporibus, et de Magno Magnete Tellure ( On the Magnet and Magnetic Bodies, and on the Great Magnet the Earth ).
Today some rabbis who advocate some form of process theology include Bradley Shavit Artson, Lawrence A. Englander, William E. Kaufman, Harold Kushner, Anton Laytner, Michael Lerner, Gilbert S. Rosenthal, Lawrence Troster, Donald B. Rossoff, Burton Mindick, and Nahum Ward.
American Impressionist painters noted for this style during this era included, Guy Rose, Robert William Wood, Mary Denil Morgan, John Gamble, and Arthur Hill Gilbert.
* Gilbert Osofsky, Puttin ' on Ole Massa: The Slave Narratives of Henry Bibb, William Wells Brown, and Solomon Northup ( New York: Harper and Row, 1969 )
Truth started dictating her memoirs to her friend Olive Gilbert, and in 1850 William Lloyd Garrison privately published her book, The Narrative of Sojourner Truth: A Northern Slave.
* William Gilbert ( 1544 – 1603 ) published On the Magnet and Magnetic Bodies, and on the Great Magnet the Earth in 1600, which laid the foundations of a theory of magnetism and electricity.
At first, Alan of Brittany had custody of the duke, but when Alan died in either late 1039 or October 1040, Gilbert of Brionne took charge of William.
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On 12 September 2009, William Gilbert Grace was posthumously inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame at Lord's.
Their eldest son William Gilbert junior ( 1874 – 1905 ) was born on 6 July.
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* May 29 – William S. Gilbert, English dramatist ( b. 1836 )
* December 10 – William Gilbert, English scientist ( plague ) ( b. 1544 )
Almost three centuries later, William Gilbert of Colchester replicated Petrus Peregrinus ' work and was the first to state explicitly that Earth is a magnet.
* May 24 – William Gilbert, English scientist ( d. 1603 )
William studied liberal arts and theology in Paris and Orléans for about ten years, with professors who had been students of Thierry of Chartres and Gilbert de la Porrée.
She became the romantic interest for some of MGM's leading male stars, among them Ramón Novarro, William Haines, John Gilbert and Tim McCoy.
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William Styron, while facing the changing economy with a certain uneasy reluctance, insists he is not to be classified as a Southern writer and yet includes traditional Southern concepts in everything he publishes.
William Makepeace Thackeray publishes Vanity Fair.
* February 27 – George Joye publishes his Apologye in Antwerp to clear his name from the accusations of William Tyndale
* September 3 – William Wordsworth publishes the poem Westminster Bridge.
* William Harvey publishes Exercitatio Anatomica de Motu Cordis et Sanguinis in Animalibus, containing his findings about blood circulation.
* September 19 – William Lloyd Garrison publishes Angelina Grimké's anti-slavery letter in The Liberator.
* William Penn publishes his proposal for European federation, Essay on the Present and Future Peace of Europe.
* 1838 – 1840 – Edward William Lane publishes an English translation.
* 1785 – William Withering publishes " An Account of the Foxglove " the first systematic description of digitalis in treating dropsy
William Gilmore Simms published a novel, The Yemassee: A Romance of Carolina, in the nineteenth century, and the University of South Carolina in Columbia publishes a literary journal named Yemassee.
William Cobbett publishes his newspaper as a pamphlet.
* Edward William Lane publishes an English version of The Arabian Nights
* Samuel Ireland publishes a collection of Shakespearean forgeries in his Miscellaneous Papers and Legal Instruments Under the Hand and Seal of William Shakespeare ( dated this year but actually produced on 24 December 1795 ).
* William Pearson publishes An Introduction to Practical Astronomy.
* William Klein publishes his photo essay New York, 1954 – 55.
* William Gilbert publishes De Magnete in England, describing Earth's magnetic field ; beginning of the modern science of geomagnetism.
* William How publishes his flora Phytologia Britannica.
* William Farish of the University of Cambridge publishes a systematization of the rules for isometric drawing.
* William Jackson Hooker publishes Flora Scotica ; or, A description of Scottish plants.
* Irish astronomer William Rowan Hamilton publishes Theory of Systems of Rays.
* William Beaumont publishes Experiments and Observations on the Gastric Juice and the Physiology of Digestion.
* 1844 (- 1849 )-George Robert Gray head of the ornithological section of the British Museum, now the Natural History Museum publishes Genera of Birds ( 1844 – 49 ), illustrated by David William Mitchell and Joseph Wolf.
* 1961 – William Homan Thorpe publishes Bird-Song.
* William Whewell publishes The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences, introducing the terms scientist ( for the second time ) and physicist.
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