John Arbuthnot (1667-1735)

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Name (English)
John Arbuthnot
Short name
John Arbuthnot
Year of birth
1667
Year of death
1735
Short Description
"John Arbuthnot FRS (baptised 29 April 1667 – 27 February 1735), often known simply as Dr Arbuthnot, was a Scottish physician, satirist and polymath in London. He is best remembered for his contributions to mathematics, his membership in the Scriblerus Club (where he inspired both Jonathan Swift´s Gulliver´s Travels book III and Alexander Pope´s Peri Bathous, Or the Art of Sinking in Poetry, Memoirs of Martin Scriblerus, and possibly The Dunciad), and for inventing the figure of John Bull." - (en.wikipedia.org 01.11.2019)
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