John Arbuthnot

Portrait of John Arbuthnot by [[Godfrey Kneller]] 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 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. Provided by Wikipedia
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    by Arbuthnot, John, 1667-1735
    Published 1712
    London, J. Morphew, 1712.
    22 p. 19 cm.
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    by Arbuthnot, John, 1667-1735
    Published 1712
    London, Printed for John Morphew, 1712.
    4 p. ̋., 37 p. 18.5 cm.
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    by Arbuthnot, John, 1667-1735
    Published 1751
    Glasgow : Carlile, 1751.
    2 v. ; 18 cm.
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    by Arbuthnot, John, 1667-1735
    Published 1714
    London, Printed for J. Moor [1714]
    3 pt. in 1 v. 19.5 cm.

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