The correspondence of Dr. Martin Lister (1639-1712) [Volume One 1662-1677]
Martin Lister (1639–1712) was a consummate virtuoso, the first arachnologist and conchologist, and a Royal physician. As one of the most prominent corresponding fellows of the Royal Society, many of Lister’s discoveries in natural history, archaeology, medicine, and chemistry were printed in the Philosophical Transactions. Lister corresponded extensively with explorers and other virtuosi such as John Ray, who provided him with specimens, observations, and locality records from Jamaica, America, Barbados, France, Italy, the Netherlands, and his native England. This volume of ca. 400 letters (one of three), consists of Lister’s correspondence dated from 1662 to 1677, including his time as a Cambridge Fellow, his medical training in Montpellier, and his years as a practicing physician in York.
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University of Lincoln
- Unit of assessment
- 28 - History
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- 15101
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- R - Scholarly edition
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- Title of edition
- The correspondence of Dr. Martin Lister (1639-1712) [Volume One 1662-1677]
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- Brill Academic Publishing
- ISBN
- 9789004225534
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- February
- Year of publication
- 2015
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- Interdisciplinary
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- The first edition of the surviving letters written by and to Martin Lister between 1662-1677 draws on a decade of original manuscript research in over 25 UK and European archives. This 933-page edition, winner of the 2017 John Thackray Medal from the Society of the History of Natural History (Natural History Museum, London), provides transcribed, translated, and edited texts of 401 letters. It accompanies these with full scholarly apparatus: extensive footnotes covering the interdisciplinary range of Lister’s interests; newly-researched correspondent biographies; an 11000-word introduction placing the letters in personal and wider cultural contexts.
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