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Peter Peregrinus Initiates the Scientific Study of Magnets

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Peter Peregrinus Initiates the Scientific Study of Magnets Overview The earliest experimental study of magnetism can be found in a letter written by Petrus Peregrinus in 1269. Peregrinus was the first... Read more

Petrus (Peter) Peregrinus De Maricourt

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Petrus (Peter) Peregrinus De Maricourt fl. 1269 French Physicist and Engineer Petrus Peregrinus de Maricourt conducted the first systematic experiments on magnetism and invented improved nautical comp... Read more

Petrus Peregrinus

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Petrus Peregrinus fl. 1200s French scholar noted for his observations on the magnetic compass and for his work as a military engineer. In 1269 Petrus, also known as Pierre Pelerin de Maricourt, was in... Read more

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Petrus Peregrinus

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Petrus Peregrinus (active 1261-1269) was a French scholastic and scientist whose famous letter on magnetism is one of the monuments of experimental research in the Middle Ages.Only the scantiest detai... Read more