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THE tenth of this month was the three hundredth anniversary of the death of Dr. William Gilbert, the celebrated Elizabethan philosopher who laid the foundations of the science of electricity. The occasion was celebrated on Thursday, December 10, at the meeting of the Institution of Electrical Engineers by the presentation of a picture by the Institution to the town of Colchester, in which place Gilbert was born and died. The picture was painted by Mr. Ackland Hood; it is a fine historical painting representing Dr. Gilbert showing his electrical experiments to Queen Elizabeth.
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The Gilbert Tercentenary . Nature 69, 162 (1903). https://doi.org/10.1038/069162a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/069162a0