Posted on April 17, 2017 by Amy Smith -
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Posted on April 13, 2017 by Amy Smith -
Sarah Lennox (1705-1751), Duchess of Richmond and Lennox was married to Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond. She was born Sarah Cadogan to William Cadogan, 1st Earl Cadogan and Margaret Cecilia Munter. Sarah was the Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Caroline from 1724 to 1737.
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(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Lennox,_Duchess_of_Richmond_and_Lennox [accessed 13 April 2017]).
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Posted on April 13, 2017 by Amy Smith -
Louis Bertrand Castel (1688-1757) was a French mathematician. He entered the order of the Jesuits in 1703. Castel authored several works on optics a critique of Sir Isaac Newton’s system in 1743.
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(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Bertrand_Castel [accessed 13 April 2017]).
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Posted on April 5, 2017 by Amy Smith -
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Posted on April 11, 2017 by Tracey Cornish -
Joseph de Seytres, Marquis de Caumont (1688-1745) was a collector of books, manuscripts, medals, and antiquities. He corresponded with Voltaire and contributed to the Journal de Trévoux. He was elected a Member of l’Académie des inscriptions in 1736, a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1740, and a Member of l’Académie des Arcades de Rome in 1743
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http://data.bnf.fr/11895598/joseph_de_seytres_caumont accessed 11th April 2017
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Posted on April 5, 2017 by Amy Smith -
Zabdiel Boylston (1679-1766) was a physician famous for his inoculation of roughly 250 people during the smallpox epidemic of Boston in 1721. His method of inoculation was controversial because it was based on African practices. In 1724 Boylston travelled to London where he published the ‘Historical Account of the Small-Pox Inoculated in New England’. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1726.
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(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zabdiel_Boylston [accessed 5 April 2017]).
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Posted on April 6, 2017 by Amy Smith -
Bernard de Jussieu (1699-1777) was a French naturalist and brother of Anthoine de Jussieu. He earned his MD at Montpellier and practised medicine from 1720. Jussieu joined the Jardin des Plantes in 1722, edited a new edition of Tournefort’s ‘Histoire des plantes’ in 1725, and was admitted into the Academie des sciences in the same year.
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(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_de_Jussieu [accessed 6 April 2017]).
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Posted on April 6, 2017 by Amy Smith -
Louis Leon Pajot (1678-1753) was a Parisian physician. He collected natural and mechanical curiosities, which attracted many visitors including Peter the Great. He made contributions to the Memoires de l’Academie des Sciences and was of member of the said organisation.
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Gaspard Monge, Jean-Dominique Cassini, Pierre Bertholon, and Jean-Henri Hassenfratz, ‘Encyclopedie methodique ou par ordre de matieres: dictionnaire de physique, Volume 4‘ (Hotel de Thou, 1822), p. 231.
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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 April 6, 2017 by Amy Smith -
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