Papers. 1811-1822.

Bostock, John, 1773-1846

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English physician and chemist. From the description of John Bostock letters, 1802-1822, to Alexander Marcet. (Duke University). WorldCat record id: 31382008 Georges Cuvier (1769-1832) was a French zoologist, paleontologist and historian of science. A committed empiricist, Cuvier opposed theories, arguing that scientists should limit themselves to describing. In zoology his work depended upon his dominant position at the Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle, which was the...

Wollaston, William Hyde, 1766-1828

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Epithet: MD; of Add MS 32166 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000439.0x000015 Epithet: MD; of Add MS 18204 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000439.0x000014 William Hyde Wollaston (1766-1828) was born at East Dereham, Norfolk, on 6 August 1766. He was educated at Lewisham, before entering Charterhouse in 1774. He was admitted a p...

Marcet, Alexander, 1770-1822

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Humphry Davy (1778–1829, APS 1810) was a British chemist and pioneer in the field of electrochemistry. He was a major figure in the reformed chemistry movement initiated by the French scientist Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier (1743-1794, APS 1775). Davy was the son of an impoverished Cornish woodcarver. As a youth, he was apprenticed to an apothecary-surgeon with whom he pursued a regimen of self-study that included theology, philosophy, poetics, several languages, as well as,...

Gamelʹ, Ī. (Īosif), 1788-1861

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Dibner, Bern.

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