WILLIAM GILBERT, AND TERRESTRIAL MAGNETISM IN THE TIME OF QUEEN ELIZABETH: A DISCOURSE BY SILVANUS P. THOMPSON, F.R.S. William Gilbert, the father of electrical science, was born in Colchester in 1540. Educated at St. John's College, Cambridge, where he took his degree as Doctor of Medicine in 1569, he settled, after four years of foreign travel, in London in 1573, and was admitted to the Royal College of Physicians, of which he became Censor, Treasurer, and, in 1599, President. He was in February, 1601, appointed personal Physician to the Queen, whom he attended in her last illness. He came of a well-known East Anglian family, and held extensive landed estates in Essex and Suffolk. He surv…
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