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MATCHING HEADINGS
Mini warm-up practice test – Match headings
Questions 1-7
The passage has seven paragraphs A-G.
Choose the correct heading for each paragraph from the list of headings below.
List of headings
i Early years of Gilbert
ii What was new about his scientific research method
iii The
development of chemistry
iv Questioning traditional astronomy
v Pioneers of the
early science
vi Professional and social recognition
vii Becoming the president of the
Royal Science Society
viii The great works of Gilbert
ix His discovery about magnetism
x His change
of focus
William Gilbert and Magnetism
A
The 16th and 17th centuries saw two great pioneers of modern science: Galileo and Gilbert. The impact of
their findings is eminent. Gilbert was the
first modern scientist, also the accredited father of the science of
electricity and magnetism, an Englishman of learning and a physician at the court of Elizabeth. Prior to him,
all that was known of electricity and magnetism was what
the ancients knew, nothing more than that the
lodestone possessed magnetic properties and that
amber and jet, when rubbed, would attract bits of paper or
other substances of small specific gravity. However, he is less well known than he deserves.
B
Gilbert’s birth pre-dated Galileo. Born in an eminent local family in Colchester County in the UK, on May
24, 1544, he went to grammar school, and then studied medicine at St John’s College, Cambridge,
graduating in 1573.
Later he travelled in the continent and eventually settled down in London.
C
He was a very successful and eminent doctor. All this culminated in his election to the
president of the
Royal Science Society. He was also appointed personal physician to the Queen (Elizabeth I), and later
knighted by the Queen. He faithfully served her until her death. However, he didn’t outlive the Queen for
long and died on November 30, 1603, only a few months after his appointment as personal
physician to
King James.