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Joshua Dinsdale

Illustration — The opening lines of Joshua Dinsdale's 1740 poem on bees Joshua Dinsdale was a publisher and translator, who published books, pamphlets and poems between the years 1740–51. Little information remains of him. He had a Master of Arts degree, signified by the letters A.M. after his name on one of his translations.

Joshua Dinsdale

Joshua Dinsdale's poem on The Modern Art of Breeding Bees, being a free paraphrase of Jacques Vaniere's Latin georgic Apes (London, 1729), was published in London in 1740. The image is of the book's opening lines.

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Died
1751
Occupation
translator · poet

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Illustration — The opening lines of Joshua Dinsdale's 1740 poem on bees Joshua Dinsdale was a publisher and translator, who published books, pamphlets and poems between the years 1740–51. Little information remains of him. He had a Master of Arts degree, signified by the letters A.M. after his name on one of his translations.

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