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China he settled in 1811 to practise in London, and speedily acquired high reputation in his profession. Within a few years he was made physician - to the See also:

French and See also:

SPANISH

Spanish embassies, and in 1837 he became a physician extraordinary to the See also:

queen. From his. earliest youth Arnott had an intense love of natural .See also:

PHILOSOPHY (Gr. gthos, fond of, and vo4 (a, wisdom)

philosophy,' and to this was added an inventiveness which served him in See also:

GOOD, JOHN MASON (1764-1827)

good. See also:

STEAD, WILLIAM THOMAS (1849– )

stead in his profession and yielded the "Arnott See also:

WATER

water-See also:

bed," the "Arnott ventilator," the "Arnott See also:

STOVE

stove," &c. He was the author of several See also:

WORKS

works bearing on See also:

PHYSICAL

physical See also:

SCIENCE (Lat. scientia, from scire; to learn, know)

science or its applications, the most important being his .Elements of Physics (1827), which went through six See also:

EDITIONS

editions in his lifetime. In 1838 he published a See also:

TREATISE

treatise on Warming and Ventilating, and, in 1855, One on the Smokeless Fireplace. He was a strong See also:

ADVOCATE (Lat. advocatus, from advocare, to summon, especially in law to call in the aid of a counsel or witness, and so generally to summon to one's assistance)

advocate of scientific, - as opposed to purely classical, See also:

EDUCATION

education; and he manifested his See also:

INTEREST

interest in natural philosophy by the See also:

GIFT (a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. die Gift, gift, das Gift, poison, formed from the Teut. stem gab-, to give, cf. Dutch geven, Ger. geben; in O. Eng. the word appears with initial y, the guttural of later English is due to Scandinavian influence)

gift of£2000 to each of the four See also:

UNIVERSITIES

universities of See also:

Scotland and to the university of London, to promote its study in the experimental and See also:

PRACTICAL

practical See also:

FORM (Lat. forma)

form. He died in London on the 2nd of See also:

March 1874.

End of Article: ARNOTT, NEIL (1788-1874)

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