Download or read book Two Great Scotsmen written by George R. Mather and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Two Great Scotsmen written by George R. Mather and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book William Hunter and his Eighteenth Century Cultural Worlds written by Helen McCormack and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-12 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The eminent physician and anatomist Dr William Hunter (1718-1783) made an important and significant contribution to the history of collecting and the promotion of the fine arts in Britain in the eighteenth century. Born at the family home in East Calderwood, he matriculated at the University of Glasgow in 1731 and was greatly influenced by some of the most important philosophers of the Scottish Enlightenment, including Francis Hutcheson (1694-1746). He quickly abandoned his studies in theology for Medicine and, in 1740, left Scotland for London where he steadily acquired a reputation as an energetic and astute practitioner; he combined his working life as an anatomist successfully with a wide range of interests in natural history, including mineralogy, conchology, botany and ornithology; and in antiquities, books, medals and artefacts; in the fine arts, he worked with artists and dealers and came to own a number of beautiful oil paintings and volumes of extremely fine prints. He built an impressive school of anatomy and a museum which housed these substantial and important collections. William Hunter’s life and work is the subject of this book, a cultural-anthropological account of his influence and legacy as an anatomist, physician, collector, teacher and demonstrator. Combining Hunter’s lectures to students of anatomy with his teaching at the St Martin’s Lane Academy, his patronage of artists, such as Robert Edge Pine, George Stubbs and Johan Zoffany, and his associations with artists at the Royal Academy of Arts, the book positions Hunter at the very centre of artistic, scientific and cultural life in London during the period, presenting a sustained and critical account of the relationship between anatomy and artists over the course of the long eighteenth century.
Download or read book Two Great Scotsmen the Brothers William and John Hunter written by George R Mather and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893 edition. Excerpt: ... chapter iii. william hunter--his life. A Br1ef-epitome of William Hunter's career may suffice for the present purpose. He was the seventh child of the family, and was born at Long Calderwood, on the 23rd of May, 1718. He was educated at the parish school, and evidently was a precocious boy. In November, 1731, at the age of thirteen and a half years he entered the University of Glasgow. He studied there for five years. He held a bursary of the Bajan Class of the value of ten pounds a year, for four years. The term Bajan was employed in the French and Scotch Universities, and is evidently a corruption of bee jaune (yellow beak), an expression meant to designate a nestling or unfledged bird. The epithet (Bejants) is still applied to freshmen in St. Andrews. It had been his intention to enter the Church, but he did not long pursue his theological studies, if, indeed, he ever fairly began them. It was long the ambition of almost every Scotch parent to have his Jmost promising son "wag his pow in a pu'pit." The people of Scotland were educated in the parish school, and on the Sabbath day they got food for thought from the pulpit, and went home discussing the sermon. To this fact, no doubt, is due in a large measure the proud position Scotland occupies in the eyes of the world. If old Mr. Hunter had hopes of seeing his son William a bright and shining light in the Church, he was doomed to disappointment. When William left college he had the reputation of being a fair scholar; indeed, his qualifications were such that he was a candidate for the situation of schoolmaster in his native parish. He was fortunately rejected. There might be some ground for moralising over the fact. Had he actually obtained the office, would he nevertheless have made...
Download or read book William Hunter and the Eighteenth Century Medical World written by W. F. Bynum and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-06-27 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays on the career of William Hunter, physician, obstetrician, medical educator and man of culture.
Download or read book Nature written by Sir Norman Lockyer and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book William Hunter and the Hunterian Museum in Glasgow 1807 2007 written by Keppie Lawrence Keppie and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2019-07-31 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes the life and achievements of the eighteenth-century Scottish physician William Hunter and outlines the history of the Museum named after him. William Hunter built up a wide-ranging private collection at his home in London, encompassing not only anatomical and pathological specimens related to his medical work, but also books and manuscripts, coins and medals, natural history specimens and artworks. On his death in 1783 he bequeathed the collection to the University of Glasgow where he had long ago been a student, and money to construct a Museum which opened in 1807. The book utilises a wide range of source material, much of it previously unpublished, to tell the story of the Museum's development, the many subsequent additions to its holdings and, more recently, the construction of a new Hunterian Art Gallery which houses not only Hunter's own collection but also numerous works be James McNeill Whistler and Charles Rennie Mackintosh. The Museum is celebrating its bicentenary in 2007.There is a foreward contributed by Sir Kenneth Calman, Chancellor of the University of Glasgow, and formerly Government Chief Medical Officer and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Durham
Download or read book The American Catalogue written by and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 960 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Joanna Baillie a Literary Life written by Judith Bailey Slagle and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much of the biography is based on Baillie's now published letters (FDUP, 1999) to family members, literary figures, scientists, religious leaders, artists, and friends in England, Scotland, and the United States; and her correspondence is supplemented with further biographical evidence and with critical commentary on her works."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Woman to Woman written by Mary Waldron and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The collection is in honor of Mary Waldron, a founder member of the Women's Studies Group, whose distinguished scholarship is exemplified in the first chapter, and whose generous encouragement of other specialists in feminist studies in the long eighteenth century.
Download or read book How the Scots Invented the Modern World written by Arthur Herman and published by Crown. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exciting account of the origins of the modern world Who formed the first literate society? Who invented our modern ideas of democracy and free market capitalism? The Scots. As historian and author Arthur Herman reveals, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Scotland made crucial contributions to science, philosophy, literature, education, medicine, commerce, and politics—contributions that have formed and nurtured the modern West ever since. Herman has charted a fascinating journey across the centuries of Scottish history. Here is the untold story of how John Knox and the Church of Scotland laid the foundation for our modern idea of democracy; how the Scottish Enlightenment helped to inspire both the American Revolution and the U.S. Constitution; and how thousands of Scottish immigrants left their homes to create the American frontier, the Australian outback, and the British Empire in India and Hong Kong. How the Scots Invented the Modern World reveals how Scottish genius for creating the basic ideas and institutions of modern life stamped the lives of a series of remarkable historical figures, from James Watt and Adam Smith to Andrew Carnegie and Arthur Conan Doyle, and how Scottish heroes continue to inspire our contemporary culture, from William “Braveheart” Wallace to James Bond. And no one who takes this incredible historical trek will ever view the Scots—or the modern West—in the same way again.
Download or read book The Literary World written by and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Joanna Baillie Romantic Dramatist written by Thomas C. Crochunis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-02-24 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This superb collection of new essays offers a unique insight into the work of a leading women dramatist of the Romantic era. Contributors offer: *contextual material for those new to Baillie's work *examinations of the relationships between her plays and the philosophical and scientific writing of the era *discussion of Baillie's theatrical methods *extended interpretations of individual plays. Ending years of neglect of Baillie's crucial work, this volume is essential reading for those working on Romanticism, women's writing, or drama of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
Download or read book Eponyms and Names in Obstetrics and Gynaecology written by Thomas F. Baskett and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-24 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents biographical details of 391 eponyms and names in the field, along with the context and relevance of their contributions.
