The History of John Bull

by John Arbuthnot

Overview

A scholarly edition of a work by John Arbuthnot. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940000859698
Publisher:	B&R Samizdat Express
Publication date:	03/01/2010
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	112 KB

About the Author

John Arbuthnot, often known simply as Dr. Arbuthnot, (baptised April 29, 1667 - February 27, 1735), was a physician, satirist and polymath in London. He is best remembered for his contributions to mathematics, his membership in the Scriblerus Club (where he inspired both Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels book III and Alexander Pope's Peri Bathous, Or the Art of Sinking in Poetry, Memoirs of Martin Scriblerus, and possibly The Dunciad), and for inventing the figure of John Bull.