Gilbert's Scientific Contemporaries
William Barlow (1544-1625), Church of England clergyman and natural philosopher
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- Magneticall Advertisements (1616) [EEBO]
- A breife discovery of the idle animadversions of Marke Ridle (1618) [EEBO]
Thomas Blundeville (1522?-1606?), author and translator
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- The Theoriques of the Seven Planets. London, 1602. [EEBO]
William Borough (bap. 1536, d. 1598), explorer and naval administrator
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- A Discourse Mathematicall (1581)
Henry Briggs (bap. 1561, d. 1631), mathematician
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- links to Blundeville (1602) and Wright (1610)
Lancelot Browne (d. 1605), physician
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John Chamberlain (1553-1628), letter writer
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- The Letters of John Chamberlain. Edited by N. E. McClure. 2 vols. Philadelphia, 1939
Thomas Digges (c. 1546-1595), mathematician and member of parliament
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- A prognostication everlasting. London, 1576 [EEBO]
Joseph Jessop
Robert Norman (fl. 1560-1584), maker of mathematical instruments
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- The newe Attractive, Contayning a short discourse of the Magnes or Loadstone... London: Richard Ballard, 1581 [EEBO]
Mark Ridley (b. 1560, d. in or before 1624), physician and writer on magnetism
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- A short treatise of magneticall bodies and motions. London, 1613 [EEBO]
- Magneticall Animadversions. London, 1617 [EEBO]
Simon Stevin (1548/49 - 1620), Flemish mathematician and military engineer
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- The Havenfinding Art. Translated by Edward Wright. London, 1599
Edward Wright (bap. 1561, d. 1615), mathematician and cartographer
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- Certain Errors in Navigation. London, 1599 [EEBO]; 1610 edition [EEBO]
Other Contemporaries - Nobles
Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, (1532/3-1588), courtier and magnate
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William Cecil, Lord Burghley, (1520/21-1598), royal minister
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Robert Cecil, (1563-1612), politician and courtier
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Gilbert Talbot, 7th earl of Shrewsbury, (1552-1616), landowner
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Queen Elizabeth I, (1533-1603), queen of England and Ireland
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Other Figures
Guillaume de Nautonnier, (1560-1620) pastor, astronomer and geographer
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Ben Jonson (1572-1637), poet and playwright
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- The Magnetick Lady. 1632
Nicholas Hill (1570-1610), natural philosopher
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- Philosophia Epicurea. Paris, 1601
Francis Bacon (1561-1626), lord chancellor, politician, and philosopher
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