Title page of William Gilbert's 'De Magnete' mb-code 1238584 Earl Russell (at the front

Earl Russell (at the front right) says he would be better employed spinning a yarn

Singer Gerry Marsden

The Black Lion Inn

10th August 1953

Title page of William Gilbert's 'De Magnete' mb-code 1238584 Earl Russell (at the frontTitle page of the second edition (1628) of William Gilbert's Tractatus sive physiologia nova de magnete, magneticisque corporibus et magno magnete tellure (Stettin: typis Gotzianis; sumptibus Ioh. Hallervordij). William Gilbert (1544 1603) was a pioneering natural philosopher, physicist and physician, whose experimental studies were greatly admired by the founder Fellows of the Royal Society. De Magnete was his most important work; first published in