An account of Paris at the close of the seventeenth century : relating to the buildings of that city, its libraries, gardens, natural and artifical curiosities, the manners and customs of the people, their arts, manufactures, &c / by Martin Lister.

  • Lister, Martin, 1638?-1712.
Date:
[1823]
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Credit: An account of Paris at the close of the seventeenth century : relating to the buildings of that city, its libraries, gardens, natural and artifical curiosities, the manners and customs of the people, their arts, manufactures, &c / by Martin Lister. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    via exercise of his profession, he devoted with equal zeal and fondness to the investigation of the natural history and antiquities of several parts of England, but particularly the north, and frequently made jour- neys for that sole purpose. The communications which he was thus enabled to make to the Royal Society, on the different subjects of meteorology, hydrology, mineralogy, botany, zoology, anatomy, pharmacy and antiquities, in addition to the treatises which he had previously published on natural history, weie so numerous, so various, and so important, as to procure his admission as a member of that illustrious body. He also contributed to the Ashmolean Mu- seum, at Oxford, many ancient coins, altars, and other antiquities, together with a great number of natural curiosities. To the same museum he sent likewise the drawings which had been made by liis two daughters, from which the plates in his Synopsis Conchyliorum Were engraved. His reputation stood now so high in the kingdom, although he resided at so great a distance from the metropolis, that he was importuned to remove thither ; and yielding to the solicitations of his friends and the public, he settled in London in the year 1683. In the spring of the same year he was created Doctor of Physic at Oxford by diploma, at the particular re- commendation of the Lord Chancellor, and was soon after elected a fellow of the College of Physicians. Having now for the long period of twenty-six years, been unremittingly engaged in the duties of his pro- fession, and other fatiguing pursuits, he thought it prudent to indulge himself in a more sedentary life ; and, his health being much impaired, he was glad for