Two Great Scotsmen
Author | : George R. Mather |
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Total Pages | : 251 |
Release | : 1903 |
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Author | : George R. Mather |
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Total Pages | : 251 |
Release | : 1903 |
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Author | : George R. Mather |
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Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 1893 |
Genre | : Physicians |
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Author | : George R. Mather |
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Release | : 1893 |
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Author | : George R Mather |
Publisher | : Theclassics.Us |
Total Pages | : 56 |
Release | : 2013-09 |
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ISBN | : 9781230432427 |
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...
Author | : Helen McCormack |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 401 |
Release | : 2017-10-12 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1134767153 |
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.
Author | : William F. Bynum |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 444 |
Release | : 2002-06-27 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 9780521525176 |
Essays on the career of William Hunter, physician, obstetrician, medical educator and man of culture.
Author | : William Richard Le Fanu |
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Total Pages | : 3 |
Release | : 1959 |
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Total Pages | : 658 |
Release | : 1894 |
Genre | : Medicine |
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Total Pages | : 958 |
Release | : 1896 |
Genre | : American literature |
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Total Pages | : 932 |
Release | : 1894 |
Genre | : Arts |
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