The Language of Mineralogy: John Walker, Chemistry and the Edinburgh Medical School, 1750-1800 (Science, Technology and Culture, 1700-1945)

by Matthew D . Eddy (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  2008

  $169.55

  Focuses on developments at the Medical School of the University of Edinburgh and the teaching of one of Scotland's influential Enlightenment naturalists, Dr John Walker, who was the professor of natural history at the medical school from 1779-1803. This book traces his career to find out how he became a naturalist during the Enlightenment.