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    Johann Jakob Scheuchzer (2 August 1672 – 23 June 1733) was a Swiss physician and natural scientist born in Zürich. His most famous work was the Physica...
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  • physician and writer Johann Gaspar Scheuchzer (1684–1738), Swiss botanist and plant collector Johann Jakob Scheuchzer (1672–1733), Swiss physician and natural...
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    Johannes Gaspar Scheuchzer (1684 – 1738) was a Swiss botanist and plant collector. He was the brother of Swiss scholar Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, both of whom...
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  • 1707 – John Mill, English theologian and author (b. 1645) 1733 – Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, Swiss paleontologist and scholar (b. 1672) 1770 – Mark Akenside...
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    history and culture of Japan Scheuchzer was born in Zürich. The third child of the Zürich scholar Johann Jakob Scheuchzer (1672–1733) and his wife Susanna...
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    Campanulaceae. The Latin name of the species honors the Swiss botanist Johann Jakob Scheuchzer (1672–1733). Campanula scheuchzeri can reach a height of 10–30...
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    Switzerland was given by Johann Jacob Wagner [de] in 1680, and replicated with copperplate illustrations of the beasts by Johann Jakob Scheuchzer in 1723. Even though...
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    first recorded in 1587. The legend is related by Johann Jakob Scheuchzer (1716). According to Scheuchzer, he was told a local legend according to which...
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    the Americas from north to south. In 1726, the Swiss physician Johann Jakob Scheuchzer described a fossil as Homo diluvii testis (Latin: Evidence of a...
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  • (ca.1815–1881 in Zürich), fugitive swindler, murdered in Zürich Johann Jakob Scheuchzer (1672 in Zürich – 1733), scholar. Hanna Scheuring (1965 in Zürich)...
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    17th century, and is first recorded in the early 18th century, by Johann Jakob Scheuchzer. A new road, including a tunnel with a length of c. 60 m, was built...
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    and historian Johann Jakob Scheuchzer (1672–1733). Its previous history is unknown. It was given to the Zürich city library by Scheuchzer's nephew in 1750...
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  • these discoveries into the Genesis creation account. For example, Johann Jakob Scheuchzer in the 18th century believed that fossils were the remains of creatures...
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    better suited to the patient's constitution and illness. In 1732, Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, in his Natural Investigation of the Baths of Baden, described...
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    that they represented fish remains. In 1708, the Swiss naturalist Johann Jakob Scheuchzer described two ichthyosaur vertebrae assuming they belonged to a...
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    1730) he came in contact with the famous geographer and physicist Johann Jakob Scheuchzer. Estor died in Marburg in 1773, and was buried in his native Schweinsberg...
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    caused mountains and the fossil sequence was similar to Woodward's. Johann Jakob Scheuchzer wrote in support of Woodward's ideas in 1708, describing some fossil...
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  • including with Johann Jakob Scheuchzer. The theologian Johann Rudolf Zwinger was a brother of Zwinger. One son was the anatomist Johann Rudolph Zwinger...
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  • Glacier. The mountain was named in honor of the Swiss naturalist Johann Jakob Scheuchzer. List of mountains of Switzerland named after people Retrieved...
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  • Jean-Baptiste du Casse, French admiral and buccaneer (d. 1715) 1672 – Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, Swiss paleontologist and scholar (d. 1733) 1674 – Philippe II...
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    physician Johann Jakob Scheuchzer in Öhningen (Dutch: Oeningen) placed this town firmly in the history annals of palaeontology because Scheuchzer interpreted...
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  • Jeremiah Dixon, English surveyor and astronomer (died 1779) June 23 – Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, Swiss natural historian (born 1672) Lewis, O. (December 1994)...
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  • one of first Dutch dentists, professor of prosthetic dentistry Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, physician, scientist Marie Beatrice Schol-Schwarz, phytopathologist...
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    Richard. "On the Linck collection and specimens of snakes figured by Johann Jakob Scheuchzer (1735) – the oldest fluid-preserved herpetological collection in...
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    science and literature flowered. In Zürich the scholar and physician Johann Jakob Scheuchzer wrote about Swiss history, geology, geography and science. In Basel...
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    Johann Jakob Scheuchzer tried to explain fossils using Biblical floods in his Herbarium of the Deluge (1709)....
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  • the Oxford English Dictionary, which first traces its usage to Johann Jakob Scheuchzer in 1727. Tokugawa coinage 1 rin coin 5 rin coin Some of these coins...
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    1681) May 18 – Georg Böhm, German organist (b. 1661) June 23 – Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, Swiss scholar (b. 1672) July 12 – Anne-Thérèse de Marguenat de...
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    eastern Kazakhstan. In his book Lithographia Helvetica from 1726, Johann Jakob Scheuchzer described a Miocene fossil found in Öhningen as Homo diluvii testis...
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  • as early as 1709, where it is mentioned in a written account by Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, who identified a fragment of a Blochius skeleton and identified...
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