Jeremy Thacker
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Jeremy Thacker was a possibly apocryphal 18th-century writer and watchmaker, who for a long time was believed to be the first to have coined the word "chronometer" for precise clocks designed to find
Chronometer of Jeremy Thacker c. 1714.
John Arbuthnot
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John Arbuthnot FRS, often known simply as Dr Arbuthnot, was a Scottish physician, satirist and polymath in London. He is best remembered for his contributions to mathematics, his membership in the Scr
Portrait of John Arbuthnot by Godfrey Kneller
John Bull in his World War I iteration. Arbuthnot's character became an enduring symbol for the United Kingdom.
Illustration from Tentamen circa indolem alimentoru published in Acta Eruditorum, 1734