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HENRY BAKER (1698-1774)

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 227 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HENRY See also:BAKER (1698-1774)  , See also:English naturalist, was See also:born in See also:London on the 8th ofMay 1698 . After serving an apprentice-See also:ship with a bookseller, he devised a See also:system of instructing the See also:deaf and dumb, by the practice of which he made a considerable See also:fortune . It brought him to the See also:notice of See also:Daniel See also:Defoe, whose youngest daughter See also:Sophia he married in 1729 . A See also:year before, under the name of See also:Henry Stonecastle, he was associated with Defoe in starting the Universal Spectator and Weekly See also:Journal . In 1740 he was elected See also:fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and of the Royal Society . He contributed many See also:memoirs to the Transactions of the latter society, and in 1744 received the See also:Copley See also:gold See also:medal for microscopical observations on the See also:crystallization of saline particles . He was one of the founders of the Society of Arts in 1754, and for some See also:time acted as its secretary . He died in London on the 25th of .See also:November 1774 . Among his publications were The See also:Microscope made Easy (1743), Employment for the Microscope (1753), and several volumes of See also:verse, See also:original and translated, including The Universe, a Poem intended to restrain the See also:Pride of See also:Man (1727) . His name is perpetuated by the Bakerian lecture of the Royal Society, for the See also:foundation of which he See also:left by will the sum of £See also:loo .

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