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Mineralogy, chemistry, botany, medicine, geology, agriculture, meteorology, classification,…: The life and times of John Walker (1730–1803), Professor of Natural History at Edinburgh University

Matthew D. Eddy: The language of mineralogy: John Walker, chemistry and the Edinburgh medical school, 1750–1800. Farnham and Burlington: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2008, xxi+309pp, £60.00 HB

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Oldroyd, D. Mineralogy, chemistry, botany, medicine, geology, agriculture, meteorology, classification,…: The life and times of John Walker (1730–1803), Professor of Natural History at Edinburgh University. Metascience 20, 395–399 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-010-9471-7

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