Swiss Mountains and English Scholars: Johann Jakob Scheuchzer's Relations to the Royal Society

Swiss Mountains and English Scholars: Johann Jakob Scheuchzer's Relations to the Royal Society

In this essay, Urs B. Leu discusses the contributions of Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, a Swiss physician and librarian with more than 800 correspondents; a Fellow of the Royal Society, he was widely published in the Philosophical Transactions and other periodicals. Scheuchzer's primary work, Physica...

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Veröffentlicht in:The Huntington Library quarterly 2015-06, Vol.78 (2), p.329-348
1. Verfasser: Leu, Urs B
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Amino acids
Bible
Etching
Fossils
Illustration
Libraries
Physicians
Rainbows
Scholarly publishing
Written correspondence
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Zusammenfassung:In this essay, Urs B. Leu discusses the contributions of Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, a Swiss physician and librarian with more than 800 correspondents; a Fellow of the Royal Society, he was widely published in the Philosophical Transactions and other periodicals. Scheuchzer's primary work, Physica sacra, uses numerous illustrations to bolster his arguments about the origins of fossils.
ISSN:0018-7895
1544-399X
DOI:10.1525/hlq.2015.78.2.329