Robert Harrington | |
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Nationality | English |
Occupation(s) | Writer and physician |
Robert Harrington (fl. 1815) was an English eccentric writer on natural philosophy, and physician.
Harrington became a member of the Company of Surgeons of London before 1781. He practised at Carlisle, where in 1810 he resided in Abbey Street (Picture of Carlisle, 1810, p. 131), and was still alive in 1815. Harrington was a believer in Phlogiston, and attempted to discredit Antoine Lavoisier's theory of combustion and other discoveries. He published:
Cavendish, Lavoisier, and Kerwan … to prove that their … opinions of Inflammable and Dephlogisticated Airs forming Water, and the Acids being compounded of different Airs, are fallacious,' London, 1786.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rigg, James McMullen (1890). " Harrington, Robert". In Stephen, Leslie; Lee, Sidney (eds.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 24. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
Robert Harrington | |
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Nationality | English |
Occupation(s) | Writer and physician |
Robert Harrington (fl. 1815) was an English eccentric writer on natural philosophy, and physician.
Harrington became a member of the Company of Surgeons of London before 1781. He practised at Carlisle, where in 1810 he resided in Abbey Street (Picture of Carlisle, 1810, p. 131), and was still alive in 1815. Harrington was a believer in Phlogiston, and attempted to discredit Antoine Lavoisier's theory of combustion and other discoveries. He published:
Cavendish, Lavoisier, and Kerwan … to prove that their … opinions of Inflammable and Dephlogisticated Airs forming Water, and the Acids being compounded of different Airs, are fallacious,' London, 1786.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rigg, James McMullen (1890). " Harrington, Robert". In Stephen, Leslie; Lee, Sidney (eds.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 24. London: Smith, Elder & Co.