The 'ingenious' Rev. Dr. John Walker : chemistry, mineralogy and geology in Enlightenment Edinburgh (1740-1800)
Rev. Dr. John Walker (1731-1803) held the Regius Chair of Natural History in the University of Edinburgh's Medical School from 1779 until 1803. As a student of William Cullen, advisor to Lord Karnes and friend of Joseph Black, he went on to teach well over seven hundred students and was a found...
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Durham University
2003
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