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William Harvey 1578-1657
(Cambridge)
On
The
Motion Of The Heart And Blood In Animals (Modern
History
Sourcebook)
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BBC
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Galileo
Project
|
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John Ray 1627-1705 (Trinity)
naturalist
Royal Society founder |
BBC |
Rocky Road
UC
Museum
of Paleontology |
van
Leeuwenhoek 1632-1723 Dutch
Linnaeus 1707-1778 Swedish |
John
Flamsteed, FRS 1646-1719
First Astronomer
Royal
|
Weisstein
St.
Andrews
BBC
|
history
of
Royal Observatory
|
Cassini
1625-1712
Italian
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Captain Edmund Halley, FRS 1656-1742
(Oxford)
Astronomer Royal,
explorer |
St.
Andrews
BBC
Weisstein
Dublin |
Royal
Observatory
Longitude
Problem
(St. Andrews)
Galileo
Project |
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Sir
Hans Sloane 1660-1753
physician/naturalist,
chocolate entrepreneur
President of the Royal Society
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British
Museum
Natural
History
Museum
|
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Gilbert White 1720-1793 (Oxford)
naturalist (ornithology)
The
Natural
History of Selbourne |
BBC |
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Lamarck
1744-1829 French |
Captain James Cook, FRS 1728-1779
explorer |
BBC
|
Captain
Cook
Society
Pacific
Coast
Romantic
Natural
History
The
Endeavour
expedition (Lefalophodon)
BBC:
tour
of Endeavour;
Endeavour's
scientific
impact;
navigation
animation |
Cuvier
1769-1832 French |
Matthew
Boulton, FRS 1728-1809
manufacturer
|
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The
beginning
of the Industrial Revolution (BBC)
Revolutionary
Players
|
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Josiah
Wedgwood, FRS 1730-1795
ceramic engineer,
manufacturer
|
BBC
|
The
beginning
of the Industrial Revolution (BBC)
Wedgwood
Visitor's
Center
|
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Erasmus
Darwin, FRS 1731-1802 (Cambridge)
physician, naturalist, engineer
|
Victorian
Web
Weisstein
BBC
|
UC
Museum
of Paleontology
Rocky
Road
Lefalophodon
The
beginning
of the Industrial Revolution (BBC)
|
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James Watt, FRS 1736-1819
engineer
|
BBC
|
The
beginning
of the Industrial Revolution (BBC) |
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Sir William Herschel, FRS 1738-1822
Caroline Herschel, FRS 1750-1848
Sir John Herschel, FRS 1792-1871
(Cambridge)
astronomers |
William: Weisstein
Caroline: St.
Andrews
John: St.
Andrews
Dublin |
Herschel
Museum
Royal
Observatory
link to photography |
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Sir Joseph Banks 1743-1820
naturalist/botanist
President of the Royal Society
Papers of Joseph
Banks
The
Endeavour
Journal
|
BBC
|
Lefalophodon
Rocky Road
director
of
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Australian
Botanical
Gardens |
Aggasiz
1807-1873 Swiss |
William
Smith 1769-1839
geologist |
Weisstein |
Rocky Road
UC
Museum of Paleontology |
Werner
1750-1817 German |
William Buckland, FRS 1784-1856 (Oxford)
geologist, paleontologist |
Victorian
Web |
Rocky
Road |
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Adam Sedgwick, FRS 1785-1873 (Cambridge)
geologist |
|
Lefalophodon
Rocky
Road
UC
Museum
of Paleontology |
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Roderick Murchison, FRS 1792-1871
geologist and geographer
President, Royal Geographical Society |
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Lefalophodon
Rocky Road |
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William Whewell, FRS 1794-1866
(Trinity)
geologist |
Victorian
Web
Stanford
Encyclopedia
of Philosophy |
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Sir Charles Lyell, FRS 1797-1875 (Oxford)
geologist
Principles
of
Geology III & IV |
Weisstein
San Jose
State
Victorian
Web |
Lefalophodon
Rocky Road |
Mendel
1822-1884 Austrian |
Mary Anning 1799-1847
paleontologist |
Distinguished
Women |
Rocky
Road
UC
Museum
of Paleontology |
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George Airy 1801-1892 (Trinity)
Astronomer Royal
President of the Royal
Society
|
St.
Andrews
Weisstein |
BBC
Royal
Observatory |
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Richard Owen, FRS 1804-1892
paleontologist |
Victorian
Web |
Lefalophodon
Rocky Road |
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Sir Charles Darwin, FRS 1809-1882
(Cambridge)
naturalist
Online
Literature
Library - C Darwin
The
Voyage
of the Beagle 1845
The
Origin
of Species 1859
The
Origin
of Species excerpts (Reading About the World) |
BBC
Weisstein
Victorian
Web
Lynch |
About
Darwin
Cambridge
Romantic
Natural
History
Lefalophodon
The
Beagle
expedition (Lefalophodon)
Rocky
Road
|
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Sir Joseph Hooker 1817-1911
botanist
President of the Royal Society |
|
director
of
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Hooker website
Lefalophodon
The
Erebus
and Terror expedition (Lefalophodon) |
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Alfred Russell Wallace, FRS 1823-1913
naturalist |
Weisstein
Victorian
Web |
AR
Wallace
web site
Rocky
Road
Lefalophodon |
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Thomas Henry Huxley
1825-1895
paleontologist
President of the Royal
Society
|
Weisstein
Victorian
Web |
UC
Museum
of Paleontology
Rocky
Road
Lefalophodon |
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