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JOHN ANDERSON (1726-1796)

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JOHN
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ANDERSON (1726-1796)  , Scottish natural philosopher, was
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born at Roseneath,
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Dumbartonshire, in 1726 . In 1756 he became
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professor of
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oriental
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languages in the university of
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Glasgow, where he had finished his
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education; and in 176o he was appointed to the more congenial
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post of professor of natural
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philosophy . He devoted himself particularly to the application of
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science to
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industry, instituting courses of lectures intended especially for artisans, and he bequeathed his
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property for the
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foundation of an institution for the furtherance of technical and scientific education in Glasgow,
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Anderson's
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College, now merged in the Glasgow and
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West of
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Scotland Technical College . He died in Glasgow on the 13th of
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January 1796 . His Institutes of Physics, published in 1786, went through five
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editions in ten years .

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