Authority Cited: Hale, Dr. [Stephen Hales]
Author name and dates: Stephen Hales (1677-1771)
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BKG Bio-tweet: Cleric; scientist (plant and animal physiology); inventor; first to measure blood pressure; vivisectionist; philanthropist
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: one S. Hales cite identified as added in 1773 Dict. indicated in bold italic below. The Sale Catalogue of Samuel Johnson's Library, A Facsimile Edition, Fleeman, ed. lists lot 44 4. Hale's statics. . . . Greene in Samuel Johnson's Library, An Annotated Guide, points out that the 1732 and 1733 Statics texts were important scientific contributions and also that SJ reviewed a 1756 book by Hales on distillation and ventilation of seawater in the Literary Magazine (June/July 1756).]
Author name and dates: Stephen Hales (1677-1771)
Creative Commons License, National Portrait Gallery
BKG Bio-tweet: Cleric; scientist (plant and animal physiology); inventor; first to measure blood pressure; vivisectionist; philanthropist
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: one S. Hales cite identified as added in 1773 Dict. indicated in bold italic below. The Sale Catalogue of Samuel Johnson's Library, A Facsimile Edition, Fleeman, ed. lists lot 44 4. Hale's statics. . . . Greene in Samuel Johnson's Library, An Annotated Guide, points out that the 1732 and 1733 Statics texts were important scientific contributions and also that SJ reviewed a 1756 book by Hales on distillation and ventilation of seawater in the Literary Magazine (June/July 1756).]
- SJ credits Hales with the invention of the ventilator in the definition of ventilator; the OED credits Hales with the first use of the term in A Description of Ventilators, Whereby Great Quantities of Fresh Air may with ease be conveyed into Mines, Gaols, Hospitals, Work-Houses, and Ships, in exchange for their Noxious Air . . . Which was read before the Royal society in May 1741, by Stephen Hales, D. D., F. R. S., Rector of Faringdon, Hampshire and Minister of Teddington, Middlesex, 1743, London: printed for W. Innys at the West End of St. Paul's, R. Manby over against theOld Bailey on Lud-Gate Hill, and T. Woodward; ventilator