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Richard Brookes ( fl. 1721 – 1763) was an English physician and author of compilations and translations on medicine, surgery, natural history, and geography, most of which went through several editions.
Brookes's analysis compared to Plot
/ref> His main translations are ''The Natural History of Chocolate'' (1724), from the French ''Histoire Naturelle du Cacao et du Sucre'' (1719) of Quelus (de Chélus), 2nd ed. 1730; and
Richard Brookes ( fl. 1721 – 1763) was an English physician and author of compilations and translations on medicine, surgery, natural history, and geography, most of which went through several editions.
Life
He was at one time a rural practitioner in Surrey (Dedication of ''Art of Angling''). At some time previous to 1762 he had travelled both in America and Africa (Preface to ''Natural History'').Works
His ''General Gazetteer'' (1762) filled a gap in the market and went through many editions, up to that ofAlexander George Findlay
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Life
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in the later nineteenth century. Other works were:
*''History of the most remarkable Pestilential Distempers'', 1721.
*''The Art of Angling, Rock and Sea Fishing, with the Natural History of River, Pond, and Sea Fish'', 1740.
*''The General Practice of Physic'', 1751.
*''An Introduction to Physic and Surgery'', 2 vols. 1754.
*''A System of Natural History'', 6 vols. 1763. Includes Volume 5, known in the early history of palaeontology. In this volume Brookes noted a bone, known previously to Robert Plot
Robert Plot (13 December 1640 – 30 April 1696) was an English naturalist, first Professor of Chemistry at the University of Oxford, and the first keeper of the Ashmolean Museum.
Early life and education
Born in Borden, Kent to parents Robe ...
, and now identified as coming from Megalosaurus
''Megalosaurus'' (meaning "great lizard", from Greek , ', meaning 'big', 'tall' or 'great' and , ', meaning 'lizard') is an extinct genus of large carnivorous theropod dinosaurs of the Middle Jurassic period (Bathonian stage, 166 million years ...
; found in a quarry at Cornwell, Oxfordshire
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Manor
Cornwell wa ...
, it is known as the "Cornwell bone". Brookes named the creature from which it came ''Scrotum Humanum'' in 1763, referring to anatomical similarities with the human scrotum
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./ref> His main translations are ''The Natural History of Chocolate'' (1724), from the French ''Histoire Naturelle du Cacao et du Sucre'' (1719) of Quelus (de Chélus), 2nd ed. 1730; and
Jean-Baptiste Du Halde
Jean-Baptiste Du Halde (; 1 February 1674 – 18 August 1743) was a French Jesuit historian specializing in China. He did not travel to China, but collected seventeen Jesuit missionaries' reports and provided an encyclopedic survey of the histo ...
's ''History of China'', 4 vols. 1736.
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