The Earth's Magnetic Field

Authors

Robert S. Carmichael, University of IowaFollow

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

application/pdf

Recommended Citation

Carmichael, Robert S. (1980) "The Earth's Magnetic Field," Iowa Science Teachers Journal: Vol. 17: No. 1, Article 4.
Available at: https://scholarworks.uni.edu/istj/vol17/iss1/4