Indonesiaâs economy, the largest in South-East Asia, is slowing. Annual growth fell to 5.2% in the first quarter, its slowest rate in more than four years. Wasteful energy subsidies are costing the government some $30 billion a year and contribute to a destabilising current-account deficit.
William Gilbert (/ËÉ¡ÉªlbÉrt/ ; 24 May 1544 â 30 November 1603), also known as Gilberd, was an English physician, physicist and natural philosopher. He passionately rejected both the prevailing Aristotelian philosophy and the Scholastic method of university teaching.
History of Electricity - William Gilbert. 1  The history of electricity begins with William Gilbert, a physician who served Queen Elizabeth the first of England. 2  Inspired and educated by William Gilbert several Europeans inventors, Otto von Guericke of Germany, Charles Francois Du Fay of France, and Stephen Gray of England, expanded the knowledge.