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Home > Iowa Academy of Science > Journals & Newsletters > Iowa Science Teachers Journal > Volume 17 > Number 1 (1980)

 

Document Type

Article

Abstract

In the year 1600, the Englishman William Gilbert published "De Magnete", one of the first true scientific treatises. He had studied, with a compass needle, the dip and pattern of the magnetic field around a sphere of lodestone magnetite (the mineral Fe304). Further, he deduced that the Earth had a similar field, and was therefore like a giant magnet.

Publication Date

April 1980

Journal Title

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

Volume

17

Issue

1

First Page

9

Last Page

15

Copyright

© Copyright 1980 by the Iowa Academy of Science

Language

en

File Format

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