Richard Brookes

For those of a similar name, see Rick Brookes and Richard Brooks (disambiguation).
Frontispiece from the 1790 edition of The Art of Angling.

Richard Brookes (fl. 1721 – 1763) was an English physician and author of compilations and translations on medicine, surgery, natural history, and geography, most of which went through several editions.

Life

He was at one time a rural practitioner in Surrey (Dedication of Art of Angling). At some time previous to 1762 he had travelled both in America and Africa (Preface to Natural History).

Works

His General Gazetteer (1762) filled a gap in the market and went through many editions, up to that of Alexander George Findlay in the later nineteenth century.[1] Other works were:

His main translations are The Natural History of Chocolate (1724), from the French Histoire Naturelle du Cacao et du Sucre (1719) of Quelus (de Chélus), 2nd ed. 1730; and Jean-Baptiste Du Halde's History of China, 4 vols. 1736.

The bone Brookes used to name Megalosaurus, with Robert Plot's work in which it had been described in 1676.

References

  1. Richard Brookes (1786), The General Gazetteer (6th ed.), London: J.F.C. Rivington
  2. The Natural History of Waters, Earths, Stones, Fossils and Minerals, with their Virtues, Properties, and Medicinal Uses, to which is added, the Method in which Linnaeus has treated these subjects. London: J. Newbery.
  3. http://www.sciencephoto.com/media/150747/view
  4. http://palaeo.gly.bris.ac.uk/Essays/dinohist.html
  5. Brookes's analysis compared to Plot
 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Brookes, Richard". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900. 

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