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See also:PETER See also:ARTEDI (17o5-1735) , See also:Swedish naturalist, was See also:born in the See also:province of Angermania, in See also:Sweden, on the 22nd of See also:February 1705 . Intending to become a clergyman, he went, in 17 24, to study See also:theology at See also:Upsala, but he turned his See also:attention to See also:medicine and natural See also:history, especially See also:ichthyology, upon the study of which he exercised See also:great See also:influence (see ICHTHYOLOGY) . In 1728 his countryman See also:Linnaeus arrived in Upsala, and a lasting friendship was formed between the two . In 1732 both See also:left Upsala, See also:Artedi for See also:England, and Linnaeus for See also:Lapland; but before parting they reciprocally bequeathed to each other their See also:manuscripts and books in the event of See also:death . He was accidentally drowned on the 27th of See also:September 1735 at See also:Amsterdam, where he was engaged in cataloguing the collections of See also:Albert Seba, a wealthy Dutchman, who had formed what was perhaps the richest museum of his See also:time . According to agreement, his manuscripts came into the hands of Linnaeus, and his Bibliotheca Ichthyologica and Philosophia Ichthyologica, together with a See also:life of the author, were published at See also:Leiden in the See also:year 1738 . |
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