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- 2002
- year of publication
- 160
- pages
- English (United Kingdom)
- language
- Hardcover
- cover
- Publisher
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- ISBN-13
- 978-18-4046-290-6
- EAN
- 9781840462906
- Publication date
- 2002-05-06
- Book
- Latitude and the Magnetic Earth · 1 edition
The publisher on this edition
William Gilbert, royal physician and Elizabeth the First's most distinguished man of science, came to conceive the Earth as a vast spherical magnet, enabling the determination of a ship's position. William Gilbert, royal physician and Elizabeth the First's most distinguished man of science, came to conceive the Earth as a vast spherical magnet, enabling the determination of a ship's position.