Tyson, Edward
, a learned physician, the son of
Edward Tyson, of Clevedon, in Somersetshire, gent, was
born in 1649, and admitted commoner of Magdalen Hall,
Oxford, in 1667, where, after taking the degree of M. A.
he entered on the study of medicine, was made fellow of
the royal society, and proceeded M. D. at Cambridge in
1680. Soon after this he became fellow of the college of
physicians, reader of the anatomical lecture in surgeons’ ball, and physician to the hospitals of Bethlevn and Bridewell, London, in which station he died Aug. 1, 1708. He
was a skilful anatomist, and an ingenious writer, as appears
by his essays in the Philosophical Transactions, and Mr.
Hook’s collections. He published also “The anatomy of
a Porpoise dissected at Gresham college,” Lond. 1680.
“The anatomy of a Pigmy, compared with that of a Monkey, an Ape, and a Man,” Lond. 4to, with a “Philosophical essay concerning the Pygmies of the ancients,” ibid. 2
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The anatomy of
a Porpoise dissected at Gresham college, 1680
Works Online
Works found by this author (or others with similar names) in the Early English Books Online Collection:
Phocæna, or The anatomy of a porpess dissected at Gresham Colledge: with a præliminary discourse concerning anatomy, and a natural history of animals. (1680) by Tyson, Edward, 1650-1708.
Ephemeri vita, or, The natural history and anatomy of the Ephemeron, a fly that lives but five hours written originally in Low-Dutch by Jo. Swammerdam ...Ephemeri vita. English (1681) by Tyson, Edward, 1650-1708.
Carigueya, seu marsupiale Americanum, or, The anatomy of an opossum dissected at Gresham College by Edward Tyson ... (1698) by Tyson, Edward, 1650-1708.
Orang-outang, sive, Homo sylvestris, or, The anatomy of a pygmie compared with that of a monkey, an ape, and a man to which is added, A philological essay concerning the pygmies, the cynocephali, the satyrs and sphinges of the ancients : wherein it will appear that they are all either apes or monkeys, and not men, as formerly pretended / by Edward Tyson ... (1699) by Tyson, Edward, 1650-1708.
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