Images Dated 11th July 2003

Russian space station Mir over a storm on Earth

Mir space station. Fisheye lens view of the Russian space station Mir ('peace') orbiting over a storm (lower centre) on Earth. Mir was launched in February 1986. Consisting originally of a core module and docking facilities, a variety of science modules have been added to Mir, increasing its mass from its original 21 tonnes to over 100 tonnes. Image taken from shuttle Atlantis whilst it was docked with Mir as part of mission STS-79 during 16-26 September 1996. The mission's main purpose was to transport supplies to Mir as well as collecting and returning Shannon Lucid, an American astronaut, to Earth. Photographed over Heard Island in the southern Indian Ocean

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Title page of William Gilberts De Magnete

Title page of the second edition of William Gilbert's De Magnete, published in 1628. The first edition appeared in 1600. Gilbert was an English physician and physicist, born in 1544 and died in 1603. De Magnete ("Concerning Magnets"), was a pioneering study in magnetism, which established Gilbert's reputation as a physicist. One of his great contributions was to suggest that the Earth was a large magnetic sphere & that a compass needle points not to the heavens, but to the magnetic poles on the earth. Joseph Priestly regarded him as "the father of modern electricity" and Galileo considered him to be the founder of experimentalism

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Thunder In Hyde Park: Justin Wilson, right, and team owner Paul Stoddart, centre, chat to Sports Minister the Rt. Hon. Richard Caborn MP, left

Justin Wilson (GBR), right, and team owner Paul Stoddart (AUS), centre, chat to Sports Minister the Rt. Hon. Richard Caborn MP (GBR), left.
Minardi's Thunder In Hyde Park, Hyde Park, London, England. 11 July 2003.
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