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Electricity would remain little more than an intellectual curiosity for millennia until 1500 When the Italian scientist Girolamo Cardano started a study on electricity in De Subtilitate (1550)[3], distinguishing for the first time the electric strength from the magnetic one. In the 1600 the English scientist, William Gilbert extended the study of Cardano on electricity and magnetism, distinguishing the lodestone effect from static electricity produced by rubbing amber.[3] He coined the New Latin word electricus ("of amber" or "like amber", from ήλεκτρον [elektron], the Greek word for "amber") to refer to the property of attracting small objects after being rubbed.[4] This association gave rise to the English words "electric" and "electricity", which made their first appearance in print in Thomas Browne's Pseudodoxia Epidemica of 1646.[5] Further work was conducted by Otto von Guericke who showed electrostatic repulsion. Robert Boyle also published work. |
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