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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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