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See also:CANTON, See also:JOHN (1718-1772) , See also:English natural philosopher, was See also:born at See also:Stroud, See also:Gloucestershire, on the 31st of See also:July 1718. At the See also:age of nineteen, he was articled for five years as clerk to the See also:master of a school in Spital Square, See also:London, with whom at the end of that See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time he entered into See also:partnership. In 1750 he read a See also:paper before the Royal Society on a method of making artificial magnets, which procured him See also:election as a See also:fellow of the society and the See also:award of the See also:Copley See also:medal. He was the first in See also:England to verify See also:Benjamin See also:Franklin's See also:hypothesis of the identity of See also:lightning and See also:electricity, and he made several import-
See also:- ANT
- ANT (O. Eng. aemete, from Teutonic a, privative, and maitan, cut or bite off, i.e. " the biter off "; aemete in Middle English became differentiated in dialect use to (mete, then amte, and so ant, and also to emete, whence the synonym " emmet," now only u
ant See also:electrical discoveries. In 1762 and 1764 he published
experiments in refutation of the decision of the Florentine
See also:Academy, at that time generally accepted, that See also:water is incompressible; and in 1768 he described the preparation, by calcining See also:oyster-See also:- SHELL
- SHELL (O. Eng. scell, scyll, cf. Du. sceel, shell, Goth. skalja, tile; the word means originally a thin flake,. cf. Swed. skalja, to peel off; it is allied to " scale " and " skill," from a root meaning to cleave, divide, separate)
shell with See also:sulphur, of the phosphorescent material known as Canton's See also:phosphorus. His investigations were carried on without any intermission of his See also:work as a schoolmaster. He died in London on the 22nd of See also:March 1772.
End of Article: CANTON, JOHN (1718-1772)
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