Authority Cited: Woodward; Wood.
Author name and dates: John Woodward (1665-1728)
BKG Bio-tweet: Physician’s apprentice; self-studied botany, fossils; useful descriptions; inadequate theory; satirized by Arbuthnot, Pope
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: three titles appear to have been marked by SJ for transcription of quotations, noted below under Fossils, Method of Fossils, and Natural History. There are about 440 total Woodward cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 1 (about 165 marked N.H., about 100 marked Fossils, about 20 marked Method of F.) and about 420 total Woodward cites in Vol. 2 (about 85 marked N.H., about 55 marked Fossils, and about 10 marked Method of F.).]
Author name and dates: John Woodward (1665-1728)
BKG Bio-tweet: Physician’s apprentice; self-studied botany, fossils; useful descriptions; inadequate theory; satirized by Arbuthnot, Pope
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: three titles appear to have been marked by SJ for transcription of quotations, noted below under Fossils, Method of Fossils, and Natural History. There are about 440 total Woodward cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 1 (about 165 marked N.H., about 100 marked Fossils, about 20 marked Method of F.) and about 420 total Woodward cites in Vol. 2 (about 85 marked N.H., about 55 marked Fossils, and about 10 marked Method of F.).]
- Fishes [Fishes in Stone] in A Catalogue of the Foreign Fishes in the Collection of J. Woodward, M.D. (p.21) in An attempt towards a natural history of the fossils of England; in a catalogue of the English fossils in the collection of J. Woodward, M. D. Containing A Description and Historical Account of each; with Observations and Experiments, made in order to discover, as well the Origin and Nature of them, as their Medicinal, Mechanical, and other Uses. 1729. London : printed for F. Fayram, at the Royal Exchange; J. Senex, in Fleet-Street; and J. Osborn and T. Longman, in Pater-Noster-Row; exuviae [BKG Note: there appears to be only one 1755 Dict. cite to "Woodward on Fishes."]
- Fossils: An attempt towards a natural history of the fossils of England; in a catalogue of the English fossils in the collection of J. Woodward, M. D. Containing A Description and Historical Account of each; with Observations and Experiments, made in order to discover, as well the Origin and Nature of them, as their Medicinal, Mechanical, and other Uses. 1729. London : printed for F. Fayram, at the Royal Exchange; J. Senex, in Fleet-Street; and J. Osborn and T. Longman, in Pater-Noster-Row; amethyst; arenaceous; arsenick; ash; ash-coloured; [BKG Note: item 23 in the Sale Catalogue of Samuel Johnson's Library, A Facsimile Edition, J.D. Fleeman, includes Woodward's History of Fossils];
- Method of Fossils: Fossils of all kinds, digested into a method, suitable to their mutual relation and affinity; With The Names by which they were known to the Antients, and those by which they are at this Day known: And Notes conducing to the setting forth the Natural History, and the main Uses, of some of the most considerable of them. As also several papers tending to the further advancement of the knowledge of minerals, of the Ores of Metalls, and of all other Subterraneous Productions. By John Woodward, M. D. late Professor of Physick at Gresham College, Fellow of the College of Physicians, and the Royal Society. 1728, London: printed for William Innys, at the West-End of St. Paul's; agate; aqua;
- Letters; [Letters Relating to the Method of Fossils] in Fossils of all kinds, digested into a method, suitable to their mutual relation and affinity; With The Names by which they were known to the Antients, and those by which they are at this Day known: And Notes conducing to the setting forth the Natural History, and the main Uses, of some of the most considerable of them. As also several papers tending to the further advancement of the knowledge of minerals, of the Ores of Metalls, and of all other Subterraneous Productions. By John Woodward, M. D. late Professor of Physick at Gresham College, Fellow of the College of Physicians, and the Royal Society. 1728, London: printed for William Innys, at the West-End of St. Paul's; abide (p.51, abid: v.n, changed to v.a. in 1773 Dict.); opiniatrety/opiniatry (p.50);
- Natural History of the Earth & Preface: An Essay toward a Natural History of the Earth and Terrestrial Bodies, Especially Minerals: As Also of the Sea, Rivers, and Springs. With an Account of the Universal Deluge and of the Effects That It Had upon the Earth by John Woodward, M.D., Professor of Physick in Gresham-College, and Fellow of the Royal Society. 1695 (also a 1702 and a 1723 edition), London, Printed for Ric. Wilkin at the Kings-Head in St. Paul's Churchyard; abruption; abruptness; accension; acidulae; acquest; adjourn; agency (Preface); ... lapidary; ... [BKG Note: Wimsatt, Philosophic Words, p. 159, verified several cites from this title)
- Woodward (no work cited)