William Gilbert
English physician, physicist and natural philosopher (1544-1603)
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Elizabethan physician who spent his career dunking on Aristotle and academia's dusty methods. Gilbert's real legacy was De Magnete (1600), a book about magnetism that actually bothered to test things instead of just arguing about them.
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William Gilbert, also known as Gilberd, was an English physician, physicist and natural philosopher. He passionately rejected both the prevailing Aristotelian philosophy and the Scholastic method of university teaching. He is remembered today largely for his book De Magnete (1600).
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