THE HISTORY OF THE MAGNETIC

POLE

-INTRODUCTIO

N-In the 13th-century a French schoolar boy called Petrus Peregrinus who conducted experiments on magnetism and wrote the first treatise describing the properties of magnets.

Maricourt takes a lodestone which he had given a round shape that approximates a needle directed immediatelyto the action of the lodestone.

-EARLY DISCOVERIES-

Peregrinus wrote a letter describing everything that was known, at that time, about magnetite. It said that he did this while standing guard outside the walls of Lucera. While people were starving to death inside the walls, Peter was outside writing one of the first ‘scientific’ reports and one that was to have a vast impact on the world. However, significant progress was made only with the experiments of William Gilbert in 1600 in the understanding of magnestism. It was Gilbert who first realized that the Earth was a giant magnet.

-BIBLIOGRAPHY-

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