John Arbuthnot
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Dr. Arbuthnot
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.…more
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Peter: The Untold True Story
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2013
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The Story of Mathematics
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2008
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Robert Fergusson and the Scots Humanist Compromise
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1984
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