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Edinburgh Cabinet Library
The ''Edinburgh Cabinet Library'' was a series of 38 books, mostly geographical, published from 1830 to 1844, and edited by Dionysius Lardner. The original price was 5 shilling The shilling is a historical coin, and the name of a unit of modern currency, currencies formerly used in the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, other British Commonwealth countries and Ireland, where they were generally equivalent to 1 ...s for a volume; a later reissue of 30 of the volumes was at half that price. The series was published jointly by Oliver and Boyd in Edinburgh, and Simpkin & Marshall in London, and in the years 1848 to 1851 was published in a new edition by Thomas Nelson & Sons. Notes {{Authority control Lists of books 1830s books 1840s books ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arctic Animals Polar Regions
The Arctic (; . ) is the polar regions of Earth, polar region of Earth that surrounds the North Pole, lying within the Arctic Circle. The Arctic region, from the IERS Reference Meridian travelling east, consists of parts of northern Norway (Nordland, Troms, Finnmark, Svalbard and Jan Mayen), northernmost Sweden (Västerbotten, Norrbotten and Lapland (Sweden), Lappland), northern Finland (North Ostrobothnia, Kainuu and Lapland (Finland), Lappi), Russia (Murmansk Oblast, Murmansk, Siberia, Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Nenets Okrug, Novaya Zemlya), the United States (Alaska), Canada (Yukon, Northwest Territories, Nunavut), Danish Realm (Greenland), and northern Iceland (Grímsey and Kolbeinsey), along with the Arctic Ocean and adjacent seas. Land within the Arctic region has seasonally varying cryosphere, snow and ice cover, with predominantly treeless permafrost under the tundra. Arctic seas contain seasonal sea ice in many places. The Arctic region is a unique area among Earth's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrick Fraser Tytler
Patrick Fraser Tytler FRSE FSA (Scot) (30 August 179124 December 1849) was a Scottish advocate and historian. He was described as the "Episcopalian historian of a Presbyterian country". Life The son of Alexander Fraser Tytler, Lord Woodhouselee, he was born in a house on George Street in Edinburgh's New Town. He was named after his paternal uncle, Col Patrick Tytler. He was educated at the Edinburgh High School. He was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in Edinburgh in 1813; in 1816 he became King's counsel in the Exchequer, and practised as an advocate until 1832. At this time he was living at 36 Melville Street, a large terraced townhouse in Edinburgh's west end. He then moved to London, and it was largely owing to his efforts that a scheme for publishing state papers was carried out. Tytler was one of the founders of the Bannatyne Club and of the English Historical Society. He died at Great Malvern on 24 December 1849. His body was returned to Edinburgh for bur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lists Of Books
This is a list of book lists (bibliographies) on Wikipedia, organized by various criteria. General lists * List of 18th-century British children's literature titles * List of 19th-century British children's literature titles * List of Australian crime-related books and media * List of anonymously published works * List of autobiographies * Lists of banned books * List of books written by children or teenagers * List of book titles taken from literature * List of books by year of publication * List of children's books made into feature films * List of Christian novels * List of comic books * Lists of dictionaries * Lists of encyclopedias * List of fantasy novels * List of gay male teen novels * List of Glagolitic books * List of historical novels * List of Hollywood novels * List of light novels * List of novels based on comics * List of novels based on video games * List of poetry collections * List of science fiction novels * List of unpublished books by not ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Spalding (writer)
William Spalding (22 May 1809 – 16 November 1859) was a Scottish writer and academic. For the last twenty years of his life he served as professor of rhetoric and logic, in addition to authoring essays, reviews and historical texts. Life Born in Aberdeen, to advocate James Spalding and his wife, Frances Read, young William was educated in the city's grammar school and at Marischal College. Moving to Edinburgh in 1830, he read law and was called to the bar in 1833. In that year he published a ''Letter on Shakespeare's Authorship of the Two Noble Kinsmen'' (reprinted for the New Shakspere Society in 1876, seventeen years after his death), which attracted the notice of leading literary critic Francis Jeffrey, who invited Spalding to contribute to the ''Edinburgh Review''. Having devoted much time to studying Shakespeare and other Elizabethan dramatists, he continued to write on these topics for the ''Review''. His other writings included contributions to ''Blackwood's Magazine' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Nicol (geologist)
James Nicol FRSE FGS (12 August 1810 – 8 April 1879) was a Scottish geologist. Life He was born at Traquair, near Innerleithen in Peeblesshire, the son of Rev. James Nicol (minister), James Nicol (1769–1819), and his wife Agnes Walker. He studied Arts and Divinity at University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh University from 1825. He also attended the lectures of Robert Jameson, having gained a keen interest in geology and mineralogy. He further pursued these studies in the universities of university of Bonn, Bonn and university of Berlin, Berlin. After returning home Nicol worked at local geology and obtained prizes from the Royal Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland, Highland Society for essays on the geology of Peeblesshire and Roxburghshire, now areas of the Scottish Borders. He subsequently extended his researches over other parts of Scotland, and in 1844 published ''Guide to the Geology of Scotland''. In 1847 Nicol was appointed assistant secretary to the Geologica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Kaye Greville
Dr. Robert Kaye Greville FRSE FLS LLD (13 December 1794 – 4 June 1866) was an England, English mycologist, bryology, bryologist, and botanist. He was an accomplished artist and illustrator of natural history. In addition to art and science he was interested in causes like Abolitionism in the United Kingdom, abolitionism, capital punishment, keeping Sunday special and the temperance movement. He has a mountain in Queensland named after him. Biography Greville was born at Bishop Auckland, County Durham, Durham, but was brought up in Derbyshire by his parents Dorothy ( Chaloner) and Robert Greville. His father who liked to compose was the rector of St James' Church, Edlaston, the parish church in Edlaston in Derbyshire. Greville had an interest in natural history since he was very young, but he originally studied medicine. Realising that he did not need an income he discarded four years of medical education in London and Edinburgh and decided to concentrated on botany which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Wheaton
Henry Wheaton (November 27, 1785 – March 11, 1848) was an American lawyer, jurist and diplomat. He was the third reporter of decisions for the United States Supreme Court, the first U.S. minister to Denmark, and the second U.S. minister to Prussia. Biography He was born at Providence, Rhode Island. He graduated from Rhode Island College (now Brown University) in 1802, was admitted to the bar in 1805, and, after two years' study abroad in Poitiers and London, practiced law at Providence (1807-1812) and at New York City (1812-1827). From 1812 to 1815, he edited ''National Advocate'', the organ of the administration party. There he published notable articles on the question of neutral rights in connection with the then-existing war with England. On October 26, 1814, he became division judge advocate of the army. He was a justice of the Marine Court of New York City from 1815 to 1819. From 1816 to 1827, he edited reports of the Supreme Court, as the third Reporter of Decisions ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gilbert Thomas Burnett
Gilbert Thomas Burnett (15 April 1800 – 27 July 1835) was a British botanist. Life Burnett was the first professor of botany at King's College London, from 1831 to 1835. He was the author of ''Outlines of Botany'' (1835), and ''Illustrations of Useful Plants employed in the Arts and Medicine'', published posthumously and illustrated by his sister Mary Ann Burnett. Burnett also wrote articles on zoology, such as ''Illustrations of the Manupeda or apes and their allies'' (1828). Publications * ''Outlines of Botany''. 1835 * Plantæ utiliores : or Illustrations of Useful Plants employed in the Arts & Medicine' * ''Illustrations of the Manupeda or apes and their allies''. 1828 ;An Encyclopædia of Useful and Ornamental Plants : References Burnett, Gilbert Thomas (1800–1835), surgeon and botanistby A. M. Lucas in Dictionary of National Biography The ''Dictionary of National Biography'' (''DNB'') is a standard work of reference on notable figures from British hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Wallace (mathematician)
William Wallace LLD (23 September 176828 April 1843) was a Scottish mathematician and astronomer who invented the eidograph (an improved pantograph). Life Wallace was born at Dysart in Fife, the son of Alexander Wallace, a leather manufacturer, and his wife, Janet Simson. He received his school education in Dysart and Kirkcaldy. In 1784 his family moved to Edinburgh, where he himself was set to learn the trade of a bookbinder. In 1790 he appears as "William Wallace, bookbinder" living and trading at Cowgatehead, at the east end of the Grassmarket. His taste for mathematics had already developed itself, and he made such use of his leisure hours that before the completion of his apprenticeship he had made considerable acquirements in geometry, algebra and astronomy. He was further assisted in his studies by John Robison (1739–1805) and John Playfair, to whom his abilities had become known. After various changes of situation, dictated mainly by a desire to gain time for s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Lynn
Commander Thomas Lynn (2 January 1774 – 2 May 1847) was a Bombay Marine officer and writer. Life He was born 2 January 1774 at Woodbridge, Suffolk, where his father was a medical practitioner. At the age of 11 he entered the Bombay Marine. On leaving it at the rank of commander many years later, he was appointed examiner in nautical astronomy to the company's officers. He kept a naval academy at 148 Leadenhall Street, London, and died at Dover on 2 May 1847, aged 73. Works Lynn wrote: * ''An Improved System of Telegraphic Communication'', London, 1814; 2nd edit. 1818. * ''Solar Tables'', 1821. * ''Star Tables'' for 1822, etc. * ''Astronomical and other Tables'', 1824. * ''A New Method of finding the Longitude'', two editions, 1826. * ''Horary Tables for finding the Time by Inspection'', 1827; 2nd edit. 1828. * ''Practical Methods for finding the Latitude'', 1833. * ''New Star Tables'', 1843. A chapter by him on the navigation of the China seas formed part of the volumes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Crawfurd
John Crawfurd (13 August 1783 – 11 May 1868) was a British physician, colonial administrator, diplomat and writer who served as the second and last resident of Singapore. Early life He was born on Islay, in Argyll, Scotland, the son of Samuel Crawfurd, a physician, and Margaret Campbell; and was educated at the school in Bowmore. He followed his father's footsteps in the study of medicine and completed his medical course at the University of Edinburgh in 1803, at the age of 20. Crawfurd joined the British East India Company, East India Company, as a Company surgeon, and was posted to India's Northwestern Provinces (now Uttar Pradesh), working in the area around Delhi and Agra from 1803 to 1808. He saw service in the campaigns of Gerard Lake, 1st Viscount Lake, Baron Lake. In the East Indies Crawfurd was sent in 1808 to Penang, where he applied himself to the study of the Malay language and culture. In Penang, he met Stamford Raffles for the first time. In 1811, Crawfurd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Baillie Fraser
James Baillie Fraser (11 June 1783 – 23 January 1856) was a Scotland, Scottish travel writer, and artist who illustrated and wrote about Anatolia, Asia Minor, Iran, Kurdistan and India. Some of his Watercolor painting, watercolours made in the picturesque style represent early views of India and Persia. He was a brother of William Fraser (British India civil servant), William Fraser.William Dalrymple (historian), William DalrympleThe forgotten masterpieces of Indian art Spectator UK, 18 December 2019. Early life James was born at Moniack Burn, Reelig in the county of Inverness. He was the eldest of five sons of Edward Satchel Fraser (1751–1835) and his wife Jane. He grew up on the family estate and studied under a tutor in Edinburgh. He lived from 1799 to 1811 in The Guianas, Guiana to oversee the sugar plantations that they owned in Berbice. He returned from the West Indies in 1806 due to ill health. All of his brothers travelled in the East and had successful careers. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
