The Correspondence of Dr. Martin Lister (1639--1712). Volume Two: 1678--1694

Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-90-04-22554-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 44, 750 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm

Reihe: Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy and Science

Martin Lister (1639–1712), who served as physician to Queen Anne, was a prominent Fellow of the Royal Society (F.R.S.), and he was made an honorary M.D. by Oxford in 1684.The first scientific arachnologist and conchologist, and a major benefactor of the Ashmolean Museum, he corresponded regularly on natural history and medicine with its first and second keepers, Robert Plot (1640–1696) and Edward Lhwyd (1660–1709). Lister’s unpublished papers were among the largest of his donations to Oxford’s fledgling museum of science. In the mid–nineteenth century, these collections passed from the Ashmolean to the Bodleian Library. They contain the bulk of his correspondence, though sizeable quantities of his outgoing letters are held elsewhere, chiefly in the Royal Society, the Natural History Museum and the British Library’s collection of Sloane Manuscripts. This volume is a critical edition of this correspondence from 1678 to 1694, encompassing the years he established a medical practice in London and completed his major works on conchology.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Roos, Anna Marie

Weitere Mitwirkende

Roos, Anna Marie

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Formalen Wissenschaften & Technik
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Geschichte der Medizin
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

List of Illustrations

Calendar of the Lister Correspondence

Section1

Introduction

An Introduction to the Letters (1678–1694)

A Thematic Overview of the Letters of the Second Volume

Stylistic Considerations

Section2

The Lister Correspondence (1678–1694)

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Anna Marie Roos, Ph.D. (1997), is Emeritus Professor of the History of Science and Medicine at the University of Lincoln. A fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London and the Linnean Society, she is author and editor of several monographs and editions concerning the history of the early Royal Society, the history of chemistry, and the history of natural history.