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DR. WILLIAM GILBERT, who wrote the celebrated treatise, “De Magnete”, and who was physician to Queen Elizabeth I and president of the College of Physicians, lived and worked in London in a “capital messuage or mansion” called Wingfield House. There, in a bachelor establishment, he gathered about himself a group of students of the new learning and developed the scientific method of inductive reasoning, his “new sort of philosophising”, which he applied to experiments on magnetism and static electricity.
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GAINSBOROUGH, G. Gilbert of Colchester and Wingfield House. Nature 170, 719 (1952). https://doi.org/10.1038/170719a0
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