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He was born in Zurich on the 2nd of August 1672.
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He was born in Zurich on the 2nd of August 1672.
He received his education in Zurich, and, in 1692, went to the University of Altdorf near Nuremberg, being intended for the medical profession. Early in 1694, he took his degree of doctor in medicine at the University of Utrecht, and then returned to Altdorf, Germany to complete his mathematical studies.
His published works (apart from numerous articles) were estimated at thirty-four in number. His historical writings are mostly still in MS. The more important of his published writings relate either to his scientific observations (all branches) or to his journeys, in the course of which he collected materials for these scientific works. In the former category are his Beschreibung der Natur geschichte des Sckweitzerlandes (3 vols. , Ziirich, 1706-1708, the 3rd volume containing an account in German of his journey of 1705; a new edition of this book and, with important omissions, of his 1723 work, was issued, in 2 vols. , in 1746, by J. G. Sulzer, under the title of Natur geschichte des Sckweitzerlandes sammt seinen Reisen Uber die schweilzerischen Gebiirge), and his Helvetiae historia naturalis oder Naturhistorie des Sckweitzerlandes (published in 3 vols. , at Zurich, 1716-1718, and reissued in the same form in 1752, under the German title just given). The first of the three parts of the last- named work deals with the Swiss mountains (summing up all that was then known about them, and serving as a link between Simler's work of 1574 and Gruner's of 1760), the second with the Swiss rivers, lakes and mineral baths, and the third with Swiss meteorology and geology. Scheuchzer's works, as issued in 1746 and in 1752, formed (with Tschudi's Chronicum Iielvelicum) one of the chief sources for Schiller's play of Wilhelm Tell (1804). In 1704 Scheuchzer was elected a F. R. S. ; he published many scientific notes and papers in the Philosophical Transactions for 1706-1707, 1709 and 1727-1728. In the second category are his Itinera alpina tria (made in 1702- 1704), which was published in London in 1708, and dedicated to the Royal Society, while the plates illustrating it were executed at the expense of various fellows of the society, including the president, Sir Isaac Newton (whose imprimatur appears on the title-page), Hans Sloane, Dean Aldrich, Humfrey Wanley, &c. The text is written in Latin, as is that of the definitive work describing his travels (with which is incorporated the 1708 volume) that appeared in 1723 at Leiden, in four quarto volumes, under the title of Itinera per Helvetiae alpinas regiones facta annis 1702-1711. These journeys led Scheuchzer to almost every part of Switzerland, particularly its central and eastern districts. Apropos of his visit (1705) to the Rhone glacier, he inserts a full account of the other Swiss glaciers, as far as they were then known, while in 1706, after mentioning certain wonders to be seen in the museum at Lucerne, he adds reports by'- men of good faith who had seen dragons in Switzerland. He doubts their existence, but illustrates the reports by fanciful representations of dragons, which have led some modern writers to depreciate his merits as a traveller and naturalist, for the belief in dragons was then widely spread. In 1712 he published a map of Switzerland in four sheets (scale 1/290, 000), of which the east portion (based on his personal observations) is far the most accurate, though the map as a whole was the best map of Switzerland till the end of the 18th century. At the end of his 1723 book he gives a full list (covering 27 4to pages) of his writings from 1694 to 1721.
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