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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Peter Peregrinus Initiates the Scientific Study of Magnets
Petrus Peregrinus