Posted on April 6, 2017 by Amy Smith -
Walter Tullideph arrived in Antigua in 1726 where he joined his brother and worked as a physician. From Antigua he sent plants to Sir Hans Sloane. He acquired a plantation through marriage and by 1757 he owned land worth 30,000 pounds sterling. He also purchased Baldovan estate in Angus, Scotland, which was worth 10,000 pounds sterling.
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Douglas Hamilton, Scotland, the Caribbean and the Atlantic World, 1750-1820 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2005), pp. 60, 130.
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Posted on March 30, 2017 by Tracey Cornish -
Antoine de Jussieu (1686-1758) was a French naturalist and physician who, like Sloane, studied at Montpellier. He replaced Professor of Botany Joseph Pitton de Tournefort at the Jardin du Roi in Paris when the latter died in 1708. De Jussieu was admitted as a member of l’Academie des sciences in 1711 and was responsible for the introduction of coffee to the Antilles in 1720.
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http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoine_de_Jussieu accessed 30th March 2017
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Posted on March 17, 2017 by Tracey Cornish -
Adrian Beverland was a philosopher, jurist, and Dutch emigrant living in England. While at the University of Leiden he wrote a paper on Original Sin for which he was imprisoned and fined. He left the Netherlands in 1679 and lived in London until his death in 1716 after problems with mental illness.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Beverland accessed 17th March 2017.
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Posted on March 12, 2017 by Tracey Cornish -
Antonio Vallisneri (1661-1730) was a medical scientist, physician, and naturalist who held prestigious chairs of medicine at the University of Padua from 1700 to his death. His approach to science was greatly influenced by Leibniz, Conti, and Galileo’s experimental methodology.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Vallisneri accessed 11th March 2017
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Giorgio (Gjuro) Baglivi (1668-1707) was an Italian physician and scientist. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1698. His published works on human anatomy were popular.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gjuro_Baglivi accessed 12th March 2017
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Posted on March 12, 2017 by Tracey Cornish -
Johann Jakob Scheuchzer (1672-1733) was a Swiss scholar and physician. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1703 and his work was published in the Philosophical Transactions. In 1708 his Itinera aplina tira was published in London. It was dedicated to the Royal Society. His largest project was the Itinera per Helvetiae alpines regions facta annis 1702-1711, dedicated to his travels and published in four volumes in 1723 at Leiden.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Jakob_Scheuchzer accessed 12th March 2017
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Posted on March 13, 2017 by Amy Smith -
Michelangelo Tilli (1655-1740) was an Italian physician and botanist. He became Professor of Botany and Director of the Botanical Garden of Pisa in 1685. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1708.
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(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelangelo_Tilli [accessed 13 March 2017]).
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Posted on March 13, 2017 by Amy Smith -
Sir Conrad Joachim Sprengell (d. 1740) was a physician. He was admitted a Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians in 1719 and a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1721. Sprengell was knighted in 1725 and published the ‘Aphorisms of Hippocrates and Sentences of Celsus’ in 1735.
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(http://munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk/Biography/Details/4191 [accessed 13 March 2017]).
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