Note 1 — Chapter I
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Born. Died.
2Galileo 1564 1642.
Kepler 1571 1630.
Bacon 1561 1626.
Newton 1642 1727.
[2] The same year that Galileo died.
[3]
Born. Died.
Priestly 1733 1804.
Galvani 1737 1798.
Volta 1745 1826.
Lavoisier 1743 1794.
Crauford 1749 1795.
Hunter 1728 1793.
Davy 1778 1829.
[4] The valvular contrivances in the veins and heart, which showed that the blood could move in only one direction, had been either observed, described, or their effects respectively remarked on, by Paul, Sylvius, Michael Servetus, Realdus Columbus, Andreas Cesalpinus, and especially by Fabricius ab Aquapendente, of whom Harvey was a pupil.
[5] In a polite letter which I recently received from a distinguished pupil of Abernethy's (Dr. Butter, of Plymouth), I find that James Abernethy died of apoplexy, at Plymouth.