William Gilbert (physicist)
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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 u
William Gilbert
Tymperleys, the 15th-century home of the Gilbert family in Colchester.
William Gilbert M.D. demonstrating his experiments before Queen Elizabeth I (painting by A. Auckland Hunt).
1893 copy of On the loadstone and magnetic bodies
Galileo Galilei
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Galileo di Vincenzo Bonaiuti de' Galilei, commonly referred to as Galileo Galilei, was an Italian astronomer, physicist, engineer and polymath. He was born in Pisa, then part of the Duchy of Florence.
Portrait c. 1640
Portrait believed to be of Galileo's elder daughter Virginia, who was particularly devoted to her father
"Cannocchiali" telescopes at the Museo Galileo, Florence, suspected to be Galilean telescopes (top: 1610–1630; bottom: 1609–1640)
An illustration of the Moon from Sidereus Nuncius, published in Venice, 1610