Jacob Spon (or Jacques; in English dictionaries given as James; 1647 – 25 December 1685) was a French doctor and archaeologist. He was a pioneer in the...

(Spon End), or the road leading to that district from the city centre (Spon Street). Spon Press, a publisher acquired by Taylor & Francis Jacob Spon (1647–1685)...

generally, with the narrower modern sense first seen in 1837. However, it was Jacob Spon who, in 1685, offered one of the earliest definitions of "archaeologia"...

Christian Greeks, who had 20 churches. Evliya's account is corroborated by Jacob Spon and George Wheler's account that the town had about 5,000 to 6,000 inhabitants...

not reconstructed by Romans. The first record of modern discovery is Jacob Spon and George Wheler visiting in the 17th century. The next recorded of this...

Demosthenes" or "Lantern of Diogenes", although a reading of its inscription by Jacob Spon had established its original purpose. The young British architects James...

1685: Dolmen at Borger, Netherlands, excavated by Titia Brongersma. 1685: Jacob Spon - Miscellanea eruditae antiquitatis 1683: June 6 - The Ashmolean Museum...

Hampton (2005). Adventures with Old Houses, p. 179. Wyrick & Company. Jacob Spon, Voyage d'Italie, de Dalmatie, de Grèce et du Levant, 1678 George Wheler...

precursor Cyriacus of Ancona, were the British George Wheler and the French Jacob Spon, who visited Greece in a joint expedition in 1675–1676. They published...

Literature. His statue stands in the garden of the Grand Hôtel du Lac. Jacob Spon (1647 – 1685 in Vevey) a French doctor and archaeologist. Henry Philip...

Morlacchia". They attracted the attention of travel writers like 17th-century Jacob Spon and Sir George Wheler, and 18th-century writers Johann Gottfried Herder...

occupied Attica, Sultan Mehmed II went to the monastery and, according to Jacob Spon (1675), a French doctor from Lyon, that is where he was given the key...

and at Venice, in June 1675, met Jacob Spon, with whom he travelled in Greece and the Levant in 1675 and 1676. Spon published a separate account of the...

founded. The town was first attested in 1676 by French archaeologist Jacob Spon as an Albanian (Arvanite) village. In present times only few of the inhabitants...

Diderot's Encyclopédie. He also edited and made valuable additions to Jacob Spon's Histoire de la république de Genève. A collection of his writings was...

detailed description of Pergamon, to which the great 17th century travellers Jacob Spon and George Wheler were able to add nothing significant in their own accounts...

of Guy Patin, dean of the school of medicine in Paris, and a friend of Jacob Spon. Trained first by his father, he obtained a law degree and then chose...

were the English travel-writer Thomas Coryat, the French archaeologist Jacob Spon, the French architect Robert de Cotte, and the German art historian Johann...

French Wikipedia and German Wikipedia. Published in the 17th–19th century Jacob Spon (1687). History of the City and State of Geneva. London: Bernard White...

volumes (1676). With archaeologist Jacob Spon (1647–1685). A Journey into Greece, 6 books (1682). In the company of Dr. Spon, of Lyons, in six books containing:...

Richard Russell. Thomas Rymer – The Tragedies of the Last Age Considered Jacob Spon – Voyage d'Italie, de Dalmatie, de Grèce et du Levant Aernout van Overbeke...

that time, unknown in western Europe. Vernon set off with George Wheler, Jacob Spon and Sir Giles Eastcourt on 20 June 1675. They were on the galley of the...

Pirro Ligorio was seen among the papers of Rascas de Bagarris recorded by Jacob Spon. The gem was carefully drawn by Theodorus Netscher and engraved by Bernard...

renowned visitors of Delphi in those days were Sir George Wheler and Jacob Spon, who passed by in January 1676. The first building which attracted their...

J.J. Winckelmann's vision of antiquity. The famous French antiquarian Jacob Spon, who met Bellori in Rome in 1675, considered him «très savant en toutes...

'tower'. In the seventeenth century, the French doctor and archaeologist Jacob Spon recorded that the tower was popularly known as the "Arsenal of Lycurgus"...

figures performing religious rituals. Jacob Spon. Jacob Spon (1647–1685), a French physician and archaeologist. Spon was a pioneer in the exploration of...

erroneous assumption was made at the end of the seventeenth century in Jacob Spon's (1678) and George Wheler (1682). travel narratives. The head of the horse...

annuity, and Kemp subsequently bought it. The collection drew on that of Jacob Spon, and William Nicolson left an account of it after a visit in 1712. It...

on 1 November 1669. In his writing travelogs Magalotti was inspired by Jacob Spon and Jean Chardin. He renounced the career of those who toured the world...