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William Gilberd

Dr William Gilberd (born Colchester c.1544, died London 1603) was a royal physician and pioneering scientist, whose 1600 book De Magnete was the first study of the Earth's magnetic field.

 

One of the Colchester Southway Subway Murals created in 1972-73 by the husband-and-wife team Henry Collins and Joyce Pallot, and restored in 2017.

 

Colchester, Essex

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