John Arbuthnot

English physician, satirist and polymath

1667 CE to 1735 CE

John Arbuthnot, often known simply as Dr. Arbuthnot, (baptiszd April 29, 1667 – February 27, 1735), is a physician, satirist and polymath in London.

He is best remembered for his contributions to mathematics, his membership in the Scriblerus Club (where he inspires both Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels book III and Alexander Pope's Peri Bathous, Or the Art of Sinking in Poetry, Memoirs of Martin Scriblerus, and possibly The Dunciad), and for inventing the figure of John Bull.

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