Erasmus King: Eighteenth-Century Experimental Philosopher

Reference Number: PP/437
Level of Description: Item
Title: Erasmus King: Eighteenth-Century Experimental Philosopher
Creator(s) & Administrative History: Appleby, John H.: Author
Date: 1990
Extent: Pages: 18
Description: Copy of an article that appeared in the 'Annals of Science', 47 (1990), pp. 375-392. Erasmus King lectured in natural and experimental philosophy from the 1730s until 1756 at his Westminster home and other venues. In the 1760s he exhibited at Bath a unique mining model relating to ventilation. His wife Elizabeth died at Church Street, Bath in 1767 and was buried at Bath Abbey. See pp. 383 and 392 for Bath references.
Personal Name: King, Erasmus, d. 1760, natural and experimental philosopher
Subject: Science philosophy