An essay on the history of electrotherapy and diagnosis; . Otto von Guericke. GVILIELMI GIL BERTI SIS, MEDICI LONDI- NENSIS, DE MAGNET E, MAGNET I- CORPORIBVS,ET DEMAG- no magnete tellure ; Phyfiologia noua, plurimis & arguments, &expe~ rimentis LONDINI EXCVDEB AT Petrvs Short ANNOM DC. Title page of Gilberts De Magnete. (Reduced, the originalsize is Folio.) HISTORY OF ELECTROTHERAPY 11 It was not likely that any progress could be made inphysics while such inextricable confusion of ideas prevailed,and the first beginnings of the modern science of electricitya
An essay on the history of electrotherapy and diagnosis; . Otto von Guericke. GVILIELMI GIL BERTI SIS, MEDICI LONDI- NENSIS, DE MAGNET E, MAGNET I- CORPORIBVS,ET DEMAG- no magnete tellure ; Phyfiologia noua, plurimis & arguments, &expe~ rimentis LONDINI EXCVDEB AT Petrvs Short ANNOM DC. Title page of Gilberts De Magnete. (Reduced, the originalsize is Folio.) HISTORY OF ELECTROTHERAPY 11 It was not likely that any progress could be made inphysics while such inextricable confusion of ideas prevailed,and the first beginnings of the modern science of electricityare due to William Gilbert (1540-1603), President of theRoyal College of Physicians, Physician to Queen Elizabeth,and afterwards to James I, although he died in the year ofthe latter monarchs accession. It is a caustic instance of theiron} of fate that one of the most pedantic buffoons who everoccupied a throne should have had his court honoured withthe presence of two of the founders of modern experimentalscience—Francis Bacon and William Gilbert. In the year1600, Gilbert published his work, Dc Magnete, which laidthe foundation of modern conceptions of electricity. He wasthe first to show that other bodies besides amber and jet couldbe electrified by friction, while the
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