John Arbuthnot (29 April 1667 – 27 February 1735 / Kincardineshire, Scotland)

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John Arbuthnot, often known simply as Dr. Arbuthnot, was a physician, satirist and polymath in London. He is best remembered for his contributions to mathematics, his membership in the Scriblerus Club (where he inspired both Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels book III and Alexander Pope's Peri Bathous, Or the Art of Sinking in Poetry, Memoirs of Martin Scriblerus, and possibly The Dunciad), and for inventing the figure of John Bull.

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In his mid-life, Arbuthnot, complaining of the work of Edmund Curll, among others, who would commission and ... more »

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