John Mitchell
Mitchell, John (1711-1768). Cartographe · Bibliothèque nationale de France · Public domain
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- 1711
- Died
- 1768
- Nationality
- Kingdom of Great Britain
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- botanist · cartographer · physician · physicist · biologist
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1711
John Mitchell was born on 13 April 1711.
1768
John Mitchell died on 29 February 1768.
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- 1.Bell, Whitfield J., and Charles Greifenstein, Jr. Patriot-Improvers: Biographical Sketches of Members of the American Philosophical Society. 3 vols. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1997, I:7, 55,115,138-48,167, III:421.
- 2.Royal Society. Library and Archive Catalogue.
- 3.Hornberger, Theodore. The Scientific Ideas of John Mitchell. Huntington Library Quarterly. 10. 3. 277–296. 1947. 0018-7895.
- 4.Edney, Matthew H. John Mitchell's Map of North America (1755): A Study of the Use and Publication of Official Maps in Eighteenth-Century Britain. Imago Mundi. 60. 1. 63–85. 2008. 0308-5694.
- 5.Colin Kidd, The forging of races: race and scripture in the Protestant Atlantic world, 1600 - 2000, 2006, p. 30
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John Mitchell worked in medicine, botany and cartography. He belonged to Royal Society and American Philosophical Society. He worked at United States. Recorded with the occupation cartographer. Recorded as botanist, cartographer, physician and physicist.
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