No. 6 (2025): Issue № 6
On the Cover – William Gilbert demonstrates a magnet to Queen Elizabeth I in 1598 (Artist is Ernest Board).
Source: William Gilbert of Colchester, physician of London. On the magnet, magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth; a new Physiology, demonstrated by many arguments & experiments. London: Chiswick Press, 1900, 247 p.
425 years ago, in 1600, the English physicist and court physician to Queen Elizabeth I, William Gilbert, published in Latin a six–volume treatise "De magnete, magneticisque corporibus et de Magno Magnete Tellure" (On the magnet, magnetic bodies and a large magnet – the Earth), which outlined the first theory of electricity and magnetism. Hilbert considered the earth to be a large magnet, the poles of which coincide with geographical ones.
