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Article: Bartram, John (1699-1777)
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John Bartram (1699-1777)
Botanist
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Philadelphia.
John Bartram was a farmer who, because of his interests in botany and his tireless fieldwork, became one of America
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s finest naturalists. Bartram was a simple Quaker who lived at the outskirts of Philadelphia, the scientific center of the middle colonies. Open to new ideas, he allowed some of the greatest minds of the eighteenth century to guide his scientific research. He was friends with the Philadelphia scientists Benjamin Franklin and Joseph Breintnall. James Logan, one of the most influential Philadelphia sponsors of science, introduced Bartram to Latin, the medium of scientific correspondence. Logan loaned science ...
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...Bartram, John (1699–1777), botanist ... on a farm near Darby, Pennsylvania, John Bartram spent most of his adult life on his farm ... Smith Berkeley , The Life and Travels of John Bartram: From Lake Ontario to the River St ...
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