Peregrinus, Petrus
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...PEREGRINUS, PETRUS (Peter the Pilgrim)pe tr s per grin s, c.1220 ?, medieval scholar and soldier. The tutor of Roger Bacon, he wrote the first important study of magnetism, Epistola de Magnete, in which he described simple magnetic attraction...