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John Davidson Godman
John Davidson Godman (20 December 1794 – 17 April 1830) was an American physician and naturalist. He taught anatomy at a number of early American medical institutions including at Philadelphia (precursors of the Philadelphia School of Anatomy), Ohio and Cincinnati while also writing on a range of topics. He described several fossil species. Godman was born in Anne Arundel County, Maryland to Samuel and Anna née Henderson. After losing both his parents in 1805, he was raised by an aunt in Wilmington, Delaware. After the death of the aunt, he lived with an older sister Stella Miller at Baltimore. He apprenticed at a local printer and came to meet Dr William Luckey who worked with Dr Thomas E Bond. Godman enlisted as a sailor and served under Commodore Joshua Barney in Chesapeake Bay in 1814–15. When he returned he was offered a job by Dr Luckey at Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania. Here Godman began to study books and read what most students read in a year in six weeks. In 1816 he mov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rembrandt Peale - Dr
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (, ; 15 July 1606 – 4 October 1669), usually simply known as Rembrandt, was a Dutch Golden Age painter, printmaker and draughtsman. An innovative and prolific master in three media, he is generally considered one of the greatest visual artists in the history of art and the most important in Dutch art history.Gombrich, p. 420. Unlike most Dutch masters of the 17th century, Rembrandt's works depict a wide range of style and subject matter, from portraits and self-portraits to landscapes, genre scenes, allegorical and historical scenes, biblical and mythological themes and animal studies. His contributions to art came in a period of great wealth and cultural achievement that historians call the Dutch Golden Age, when Dutch art (especially Dutch painting), whilst antithetical to the Baroque style that dominated Europe, was prolific and innovative. This era gave rise to important new genres. Like many artists of the Dutch Golden Age, such ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
