Scottish physician, satirist and polymath in London; (1667–1735)
For other people named John Arbuthnot, see John Arbuthnot (disambiguation).
John Arbuthnot
Portrait of John Arbuthnot by Godfrey Kneller
Born
1667 (baptised on 29 April)
Kincardineshire, Scotland
Died
27 February 1735 (aged 67)
Nationality
Scottish
Education
Marischal College, University of Aberdeen
Occupation(s)
physician, satirist, polymath
John Arbuthnot FRS (baptised 29 April 1667 – 27 February 1735), often known simply as Dr Arbuthnot, was a Scottish[1] physician, satirist and polymath in London. He is best remembered for his contributions to mathematics, his membership in the Scriblerus Club (where he inspired 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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