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Name : James Jurin
Dates : born 1684–died 1750
Nationality : English
Occupation : academician; physician; scientist
Correspondents include : François Marie Arouet [Voltaire]; Gabrielle Émilie de Châtelet-Lomont d’Haraucourt, marquise Du Châtelet-Lomont [née Le Tonnelier de Breteuil]; Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon
Current document count : 2 written; 4 received . . . .
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- An account of the success of inoculating the small pox in Great Britain: With a comparison between the miscarriages in that practice, and the mortality of the natural small-pox. ... By James Jurin, ...
- Geometry no friend to infidelity: or, a defence of Sir Isaac Newton and the British mathematicians, in a letter to the author of The analyst. ... By Philalethes Cantabrigiensis
- The minute mathematician: or, the free-thinker no just-thinker. Set forth in a second letter to the author of The analyst; containing a defence of Sir Isaac Newton and the British mathematicians, ... By Philalethes Cantabrigiensis
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