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Author Roberts, Brynley F., author.

Title Edward Lhwyd, c. 1660-1709 : naturalist, antiquary,philologist / Brynley F. Roberts
Published Cardiff : University of Wales Press, 2022

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)
Series Scientists of Wales
Scientists of Wales.
Contents Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Series Editor's Foreword -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- A Note on Dates, Money and Transcriptions -- Glossary -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- 1 The Lloyds of Llanforda and Lhwyd's Grandfather, Edward Lloyd -- 2 Life at Llanforda: Father and Son -- 3 Oxford -- 4 Apprentice Years at the Ashmolean -- 5 Keeper of the Ashmolean Museum -- 6 Fossils and 'Formed Stones': Lithophylacii Britannici Ichnographia, 1699 -- 7 Britannia, 1695 -- 8 Archæologia Britannica : The 'Great Tour', 1697-1701: Wales
9 Archæologia Britannica: 'Parallel Observations' -- 10 The Glossography and After -- 11 Afterlife -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary The first full-length biography of Edward Lhwyd, this is an important contribution to the history of science in the fields of botany, palaeontology and linguistics
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
SUBJECT Lhuyd, Edward, 1660-1709
Lhuyd, Edward, 1660-1709. fast (OCoLC)fst00017077
Subject Scientists -- Wales -- Biography
Scientists.
Wales.
Genre/Form Electronic books
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1786837838
9781786837837
9781786837844
1786837846