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“All families and genera”: Exploring the Corpus of English Life Sciences Texts
Edited by Isabel Moskowich, Inés Lareo and Gonzalo Camiña
[Not in series 237] 2021
► pp. 39–70

Chapter 3
A look beyond the texts

The samples in the eighteenth-century Corpus of English Life Sciences Texts

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Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.The eighteenth-century samples in CELiST
    • 1707. James Douglas, M. D.
      • Myographiæ Comparatæ Specimen (Pages 66–127, 10,005 words)
    • 1707. Sir Hans Sloane
      • A Voyage to the Islands Madera, Barbados, Nieves, S. Christophers and Jamaica … (Pages 49–70, 10,002 words)
    • 1717. James Keill
      • Essays on Several Parts of Animal Aeconomy (Pages 95–170, 10,014 words)
    • 1720. William Gibson
      • The Farriers new Guide (Pages 4–37, 10,000 words)
    • 1723. Patrick Blair
      • Pharmaco-Botanologia: Or, An Alphabetical and Classical Dissertation… (Pages 2–25, 10,018 words)
    • 1730. Thomas Boreman
      • A description of three hundred animals (Pages 2–63, 10,017 words)
    • 1737. Elizabeth Blackwell
      • Blackwell, Elizabeth. 1737. A Curious Herbal… (Pages 1–25, 10,019 words)
    • 1737. John Brickell M. D.
      • The Natural History of North-Carolina… (Pages 107–137, 10,011 words)
    • 1743. George Edwards
      • A Natural History of Uncommon Birds… (Pages 1–23, 10,012 words)
    • 1750. Griffith Hughes
      • The Natural History of Barbados (Pages 61–88, 10,005 words)
    • 1752. James Solas Dodd
      • An Essay towards a Natural History of the Herring (Pages 23–83, 10,006)
    • 1758. William Borlase
      • The Natural History of Cornwall… (Pages 261–284, 10,009 words)
    • 1766. Thomas Pennant
      • The British Zoology (Pages 1–26, 10,010 words)
    • 1769. Edward Bancroft
      • An Essay on the Natural History of Guiana (Pages 179–248, 10,009 words)
    • 1774. Oliver Goldsmith
      • An History of the Earth, and Animated Nature (Pages 111–161,10,035 words)
    • 1774. William Withering
      • A botanical arrangement of all the vegetables, naturally growing in Great Britain… (Pages xvii–li, 32–33, 54, 93–94, 186, 193, 10,003 words)
    • 1786. William Speechly
      • A Treatise on the Culture of the Pine Apple and the Management of the Hot-house… (Pages 1–76, 10,017 words)
    • 1789. James Bolton
      • An History of Fungusses, growing about Halifax (Pages 95–138, 10,027 words)
    • 1794. Edward Donovan
      • Instructions for collecting and preserving various Subjects of Natural History… (Pages 33–84, 10,019 words)
    • 1795. Sir James Edward Smith
      • English Botany… (Pages 223–266, 9,999 words)
  • 3.A note on the Appendix
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • Works cited
  • Appendix
Published online: 10 September 2021
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