biography
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| (1677–1761)
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| biography:
| Botanist and chemist, born in Bekesbourne, Kent, SE England, UK. He studied theology at Cambridge, and became in 1709 perpetual curate of Teddington. He developed gas-handling methods, discovered that plants take in a part of the air for their nutrition, and measured the pressure of rising sap. His Vegetable Staticks (1727) was the foundation of plant physiology. In Haemastaticks (1733) he discussed the circulation of the blood and blood pressure. |
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