President and founder of Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh,[1] Founder of Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh First Professor of Medicine at Edinburgh University[2]
Medical career
Profession
physician, antiquary, geographer
Institutions
President, Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (1684), Edinburgh Professor of Medicine, Edinburgh University (1685)
Sub-specialties
botanic medicine
Research
botany, medicine
Sir Robert Sibbald (15 April 1641 – August 1722) was a Scottish physician and antiquary.
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Sir RobertSibbald (15 April 1641 – August 1722) was a Scottish physician and antiquary. He was born in Edinburgh, the son of David Sibbald (brother of...
published descriptions of a blue whale comes from RobertSibbald's Phalainologia Nova, after Sibbald found a stranded whale in the estuary of the Firth...
garden was founded in 1670 at St. Anne's Yard, near Holyrood Palace, by RobertSibbald and Andrew Balfour. It is the second oldest botanic garden in the UK...
Geographer Royal for Scotland, Sir RobertSibbald took this forward between 1684 and the early 1690s. Sir Robert circulated some "General Queries" to...
The RCPE was formed by a royal charter, granted in 1681, with Sir RobertSibbald recognised as playing a key part in the negotiations. Three applications...
tarmachan, meaning croaker. The silent initial p was added in 1684 by RobertSibbald through the influence of Greek, especially pteron (πτερόν pterón), "wing"...
built at St. Andrews and at King's and Marischal colleges in Aberdeen. RobertSibbald (1641–1722) was appointed as the first Professor of Medicine at Edinburgh...
William Scott of Thirlestane (1670–1725), landowner and poet (CP) Sir RobertSibbald (1641–1722), physician and botanist Henry Siddons (1774–1815), failed...
unusually tall dorsal fin from the North Atlantic. The physician Sir RobertSibbald, in 1687, described an alleged stranded female individual on Orkney...
from the region that is now Slovakia. This was later misunderstood by RobertSibbald in 1710, who equated Gothuni with the Germanic-speaking Goths. John...
National Library of Scotland. Retrieved 8 September 2010. John Slezer, RobertSibbald and Abel Swall (1693). Theatrum Scotiae: Containing the prospects of...
1592 – Francesco Maria Brancaccio, Catholic cardinal (d. 1675) 1641 – RobertSibbald, Scottish physician and geographer (d. 1722) 1642 – Suleiman II, Ottoman...
(bapt.) – William Wycherley, English playwright (d. 1716) April 15 – RobertSibbald, Scottish physician and antiquarian (d. 1722) May – Juan Núñez de la...
assembly ratified 1640: Completion of Parliament House 1641: Birth of Sir RobertSibbald, Geographer Royal 1642 or 1645: Mary King's Close abandoned 1645-46:...
Botanic Garden was created in 1670 for study of medicinal plants by RobertSibbald (later first Professor of Medicine at Edinburgh University) and Andrew...
physiologist and neuroscientist, founder of Endocrinology, Copley Medalist RobertSibbald, Professor of Medicine James Edward Smith, founder of the Linnean Society...
St Andrews or St. Ethernan's shrine on the Isle of May. Antiquarian RobertSibbald says that in 1100, Edgar, King of Scotland gave Pittenweem to the Culdees...
to Scotland made by Walter Macfarlane, vol. 3 (account given to Sir RobertSibbald Morrison, John, Indweller (c. 1683), A Descriptione of the Lews, archived...
(1749–1819), physician, chemist and botanist, who isolated nitrogen in 1772 RobertSibbald (1641–1722), physician, antiquary and co-founder of Royal Botanic Garden...
making it Scotland's most popular visitor attraction that year. In 1697 RobertSibbald presented the University of Edinburgh College of Medicine with a natural...
editions of Boece. The "Nomina Regum Scottorum et Pictorum", discovered by RobertSibbald at the St Andrews Cathedral Priory, places the death sites of both Domnall...
(bapt.) – William Wycherley, English playwright (d. 1716) April 15 – RobertSibbald, Scottish physician and antiquarian (d. 1722) May – Juan Núñez de la...
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society 22: pp. 561–567 1707: RobertSibbald, Historical inquiries, concerning the Roman monuments and antiquities...
in 1670, as a physic garden by combining the collections of doctor RobertSibbald and botanist Andrew Balfour as a source of medicines. A physic garden...
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