Title page of William Gilbert's 'De Magnete' mb-code 1150840 International Singing Star in London

International Singing Star in London

Died at Madrid: 15th Decr

complete with plump

His left hand is visible at the hem of the robe

Scene outside the Stock Exchange

Title page of William Gilbert's 'De Magnete' mb-code 1150840 International Singing Star in LondonTitle page of the second edition (1628) of William Gilbert's Tractatus sive physiologia nova de magnete, magneticisque corporibus et magno magnete tellure (Stettin: typis Gotzianis; sumptibus Ioh. Hallervordij). William Gilbert (1544 1603) was a pioneering natural philosopher, physicist and physician, whose experimental studies were greatly admired by the founder Fellows of the Royal Society. De Magnete was his most important work; first published in