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“All families and genera”: Exploring the Corpus of English Life Sciences TextsEdited by Isabel Moskowich, Inés Lareo and Gonzalo Camiña
[Not in series 237] 2021
► pp. 39–70
Chapter 3A look beyond the texts
The samples in the eighteenth-century Corpus of English Life Sciences Texts
Inés Lareo | University of Vigo
Isabel Moskowich | University of A Coruña
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.The eighteenth-century samples in CELiST
- 1707. James Douglas,
M. D.
- Myographiæ Comparatæ Specimen (Pages 66–127, 10,005 words)
- 1707. Sir Hans
Sloane
- A Voyage to the Islands Madera, Barbados, Nieves, S. Christophers and Jamaica … (Pages 49–70, 10,002 words)
- 1717. James Keill
- Essays on Several Parts of Animal Aeconomy (Pages 95–170, 10,014 words)
- 1720. William
Gibson
- The Farriers new Guide (Pages 4–37, 10,000 words)
- 1723. Patrick
Blair
- Pharmaco-Botanologia : Or, An Alphabetical and Classical Dissertation… (Pages 2–25, 10,018 words)
- 1730. Thomas
Boreman
- A description of three hundred animals (Pages 2–63, 10,017 words)
- 1737. Elizabeth Blackwell
- Blackwell, Elizabeth. 1737. A Curious Herbal… (Pages 1–25, 10,019 words)
- 1737. John Brickell
M. D.
- The Natural History of North-Carolina… (Pages 107–137, 10,011 words)
- 1743. George
Edwards
- A Natural History of Uncommon Birds… (Pages 1–23, 10,012 words)
- 1750. Griffith
Hughes
- The Natural History of Barbados (Pages 61–88, 10,005 words)
- 1752. James Solas
Dodd
- An Essay towards a Natural History of the Herring (Pages 23–83, 10,006)
- 1758. William
Borlase
- The Natural History of Cornwall… (Pages 261–284, 10,009 words)
- 1766. Thomas
Pennant
- The British Zoology (Pages 1–26, 10,010 words)
- 1769. Edward Bancroft
- An Essay on the Natural History of Guiana (Pages 179–248, 10,009 words)
- 1774. Oliver
Goldsmith
- An History of the Earth, and Animated Nature (Pages 111–161,10,035 words)
- 1774. William
Withering
- A botanical arrangement of all the vegetables, naturally growing in Great Britain… (Pages xvii–li, 32–33, 54, 93–94, 186, 193, 10,003 words)
- 1786. William
Speechly
- A Treatise on the Culture of the Pine Apple and the Management of the Hot-house… (Pages 1–76, 10,017 words)
- 1789. James Bolton
- An History of Fungusses, growing about Halifax (Pages 95–138, 10,027 words)
- 1794. Edward
Donovan
- Instructions for collecting and preserving various Subjects of Natural History… (Pages 33–84, 10,019 words)
- 1795. Sir James Edward
Smith
- English Botany… (Pages 223–266, 9,999 words)
- 1707. James Douglas,
M. D.
- 3.A note on the Appendix
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Acknowledgements -
Notes -
Works cited
Published online: 10 September 2021
https://doi.org/10.1075/z.237.03lar
https://doi.org/10.1075/z.237.03lar
References
Works cited
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1769 An
Essay on the Natural History of Guiana, in South America. Containing
a description of many curious productions in the animal and
vegetable systems of that country. Together with an account of the
religion, manners and customs of several tribes of its Indian
inhabitants. Interspersed with a variety of literary and medical
observations. In several
letters from a Gentleman of the Medical Faculty during his residence
in that
country. London: printed for T. Becket and P. A. Hondt.
Belanger, Terry
Blackwell, Elizabeth
1737 A
Curious Herbal, containing five hundred cuts, of the most useful
plants, which are now used in the practice of Physick. Engraved on
folio copper plates after drawings, taken from the LIFE. To which is
added a short description of ye plants and their common uses in
PHYSICK. In two volumes.
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Blair, Patrick
1723 Pharmaco-Botanologia:
or, An Alphabetical and Classical dissertation on all the British
Indigenous and Garden Plants of the New London Dispensatory. In
which Their Genera, Species, Characteristick and Distinctive Notes
are Methodically described; the Botanical Terms of art explained;
their Virtues, Uses, and Shop-Preparations declared. With many
Curious and Useful Remarks from proper
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Bolton, James
1789 An
History of Fungusses, growing about Halifax. With forty-six
copper-plates; or which are engraved sixty-four species of funguses,
Including the Seven following GENERA, viz. CLATHRUS, HALVELLA,
PEZIZA, CLAVARIA, LYCOPERDON, SPHAERIA, and MUCOR. Wherein their
various appearances in the different stages of growth, are
faithfully exhibited in about three hundred figures, copied with
great care from the PLANTS, when newly gathered and in a state of
perfection. With a particular DESCRIPTION of each SPECIES, in all
its stages. From the first appearance to the utter decay of the
plant; with the time when they were gathered; the soil and situation
in which they grew; their duration; and the particular places
mentioned, where all the new or rare species were found. The whole
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Boreman, Thomas
1730 A
description of three hundred animals; viz. beasts, birds, fishes,
serpents, and insects. With a particular account of the
whale-fishery. Extracted out of the best authors, and adapted to the
Use of all Capacities; especially to allure Children to Read.
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Borlase, William
1758 The
Natural History of Cornwall. The Air, Climate, Waters, Rivers,
Lakes, Sea and Tides; Of the Stones, Semimetals, Metals, TIN, and
the Manner of Mining; The Constitution of the Stannaries; Iron,
Copper, Silver, lead, and Gold, found in Cornwall. Vegetables, Rare
Birds, Fishes, Shells, Reptiles, and Quadrupeds: Of the Inhabitants,
Their Manners, Customs, Plays or Interludes, Exercises, and
Festivals; the Cornish Language, Trade, Tenures, and
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Briggs, Asa
Brickell, John
1737 The
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manners, and customs of Christian and Indian inhabitants.
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map of the country, several strange beasts, birds, fishes, snakes,
insects, trees, and plants,
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Brown, Mary Elizabeth
Cross, Nigel
Derry, Margaret E.
Dodd, James Solas
Donovan, Edward
1794 Instructions
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as Animals, Birds, Reptiles, Shells, Corals, Plants, &c.
together with a Treatise on the Management of Insects in their
several Status: selected from the best
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Douglas, James
1707 Myographiæ
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in a Man and in a Quadruped. Shewing Their Discoverer, Origin,
Progress, Insertion, Use, and Difference. To which is added, An
Account of the Muscles peculiar to a Woman. With an Etymological
Table, and several Useful
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Downie, James Alan
Edwards, George
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Natural History of Uncommon Birds. And of some other rare and
undescribed animals, quadrupedes, fishes, reptiles, insects, &c.
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Foxon, David Fairweather and McLaverty, James
Gibson, William
1720 The
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an exact and compendious discription of all his parts; with their
actions and uses: illustrated with figures curiously engrav’d on
copper plates. Secondly, an account of all the diseases incident to
horses, with their signs, causes, and methods of cure; wherein many
defects in the farriers practice, are now carefully supply’d, their
errors expos’d and amended, and the art greatly improv’d and
advanc’d, according to the latest discoveries. The whole
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1707 A
Voyage to the Islands Madera, Barbados, Nieves, S. Christophers and
Jamaica, with the Natural History of the Herbs and Trees,
Four-footed Beasts, Fishes, Birds, Insects, Reptiles, &c. of the
last of those Islands. To which is prefix’d an introduction, wherein
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learned languages. Under each species are added, the most remarkable
varieties, the natural places of growth, the duration, the time of
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medicines, or as poisons; as food for men, for brutes, and for
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