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John Arbuthnot

Born

in Kincardineshire, Scotland

April 29, 1667

Died

February 27, 1735

Website

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Arbuthnot

Genre

Science, Medicine, Satire

Influences

Aristotle, John Radcliffe, Isaac Newton, Samuel Pepys, Christiaan Huyg ...more

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Law Is a Bottomless Pit , later retitled The History of John Bull , in 1712 published satirical anti-Whig pamphlets of noted Scottish physician and writer John Arbuthnot.

People best remember contributions of this polymath in London to mathematics. As member in the Scriblerus club, he inspired book III of Gulliver's Travels of Jonathan Swift's book III and Peri Bathous, Or the Art of Sinking in Poetry, Memoirs of Martin Scriblerus of Alexander Pope and possibly The Dunciad . He invented the figure.

Quickly after an author died, Edmund Curll commissioned and invented a biography; Arbuthnot, complaining in his mid-life of this work, said, "Biography is one of the new terrors of death," so his own reluctance to leave records ...more

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	The History of John Bull by John Arbuthnot, Alan W. Bower (Editor), Robert A. Erickson (Editor) 3.33 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1712 — 51 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Art of Political Lying (annotated) by John Arbuthnot, Jonathan Swift, John William Cousin (Foreword) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Law Is a Bottomless-Pit. Exemplified in the Case of the Lord Strutt, John Bull, Nicholas Frog, and Lewis Baboon. Who Spent All They Had in a Law-Suit. ... Cabinet of the Famous Sir Humphry Polesworth. 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2010 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	An Essay on the Usefulness of Mathematical Learning: In a Letter From a Gentleman in the City, to His Friend at Oxford really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Law is a bottomless-pit. Exemplify'd in the case of the Lord Strutt, John Bull, Nicholas Frog, and Lewis Baboon: who spent all they had in a law-suit. Printed from a manuscript found in the cabinet of the famous Sir Humphrey Polesworth it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Law is a Bottomless-pit. Exemplify'd in the Case of the Lord Strutt, John Bull, Nicholas Frog, and Lewis Baboon. Who Spent all They had in a Law-suit The Fourth Edition it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Law is a bottomless-pit. Exemplify'd in the case of the Lord Strutt, John Bull, Nicholas Frog, and Lewis Baboon. Who spent all they had in a law-suit The second edition. it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	An inquiry into the connection between the present price of provisions, and the size of farms. : With remarks on population as affected thereby. To which are added, proposals for preve [Leather Bound] it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	An essay concerning the nature of aliments, and the choice of them, according to the different constitutions of human bodies. ... The third edition. ... diet ... By John Arbuthnot, ... Volume 2 of 2 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	An Account of the State of Learning in the Empire of Lilliput. Together with the History and Character of Bullum the Emperor's Library-Keeper. ... Description of the Empire of Lilliput, ... 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.”
― John Arbuthnot

tags: death, humor, lies, political-parties, politics

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“Mathematical Knowledge adds a manly Vigour to the Mind, frees it from Prejudice, Credulity, and Superstition.”
― John Arbuthnot

tags: credulity, knowledge, math, mathematics, mind, prejudice, science, superstition, vigour

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“There are very few things which we know, which are not capable of being reduc'd to a Mathematical Reasoning; and when they cannot it's a sign our knowledge of them is very small and confus'd; and when a Mathematical Reasoning can be had it's as great a folly to make use of any other, as to grope for a thing in the dark, when you have a Candle standing by you.”
― John Arbuthnot, The Life and Works of John Arbuthnot ... By G. A. Aitken. [With a bibliography.]

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