See also:

• PETER
• PETER (Lat. Petrus from Gr. irfpos, a rock, Ital. Pietro, Piero, Pier, Fr. Pierre, Span. Pedro, Ger. Peter, Russ. Petr)
• PETER (PEDRO)
• PETER, EPISTLES OF
• PETER, ST

PETER See also:

• PETER CAMPER (1722-1789)

CAMPER (1722-1789)  , Dutch anatomist and naturalist, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• LEIDEN

Leiden on the 11th of May 1722 . He was educated at the university there, and in 1746 graduated in See also:

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

philosophy and See also:

• MEDICINE

medicine . After the See also:

• DEATH

death of his See also:

• FATHER

father in 1748 he spent more than a See also:

• YEAR

year in See also:

• ENGLAND
• ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF

England, and then visited See also:

• PARIS
• PARIS (also called ALEXANDROS)
• PARIS, ALEXIS PAULIN (1800-x881)
• PARIS, BRUNO PAULIN GASTON (1839-1903)
• PARIS, FRANCOIS DE (169o-1727)
• PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT
• PARIS, TREATIES OF (1814-1815)

Paris, See also:

• LYONS
• LYONS (Fr. Lyon)
• LYONS, COUNCILS OF
• LYONS, EDMUND LYONS, BARON (1790-1858)
• LYONS, RICHARD BICKERTON PEMELL LYONS, 1ST EARL (1817–1887)

Lyons and See also:

• GENEVA
• GENEVA (Fr. Geneve, Ger. Genf, Ital. Ginevra, Late Lat. Gebenna, though Genava in good Latin)
• GENEVA, LAKE OF

Geneva, and returned to See also:

• FRANEKER

Franeker, where in 1750 he had been appointed to the professorship of philosophy, medicine and See also:

• SURGERY
• SURGERY (Fr. chirurgie, from Gr. Xetpoupyfa, i.e. hand-work)

surgery . He visited England a second 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 in 1752, and in 1755 he was called to the See also:

• CHAIR (in. Mid. Eng. chcere, through O. Fr. chaire or chaiere, from Lat. cathedra, later caledra, Gr. xaOi3pa, seat, cf. "cathedral"; the modern Fr. form chaise, a chair, has been adopted in English with a particular meaning as a form of carriage; chaire

chair of See also:

• ANATOMY
• ANATOMY (Gr. avaroyil, from ava-silo c', to cut up)

anatomy and surgery at the See also:

• ATHENAEUM

Athenaeum in See also:

• AMSTERDAM
• AMSTERDAM (NEw AMSTERDAM)

Amsterdam . He resigned this See also:

• POST

post after six years, and retired to his See also:

• COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country See also:

• HOUSE
• HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in Gothic it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

house near Franeker, in See also:

• ORDER
• ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
• ORDER, HOLY

order uninterruptedly to carry on his-studies . In 1763, however, he accepted the professorship of medicine, surgery and anatomy at See also:

• GRONINGEN

Groningen, and continued in the chair for ten years . He then returned to Franeker, and after the death of his wife in 1776 spent some time in travelling . In 1762 he had been returned as one of the deputies in the See also:

• ASSEMBLY, UNLAWFUL

assembly of the See also:

• PROVINCE
• PROVINCE (Lat. provincia; perhaps a contraction of providentia)

province of See also:

• FRIES
• FRIES, ELIAS MAGNUS (1794–1878)
• FRIES, JOHN (c. 1764-1825)

Fries-See also:

• LAND

land, and the latter years of his See also:

• LIFE

life were much occupied with See also:

• POLITICAL

political affairs . In 1787 he was nominated to a seat in the See also:

• COUNCIL (Lat. concilium, from cum, together, and the root cal, to call)

council of See also:

• STATE
• STATE, GREAT OFFICERS OF

state, and took up his See also:

• RESIDENCE (Latin residere, to remain behind, to dwell, reside)

residence at the See also:

• HAGUE, THE (in Dutch, 's Gravenhage, or, abbreviated, den Haag; in Fr. La Haye; and in Late Lat. Haga Comitis)

Hague, where he died on the 7th of See also:

• APRIL

April 1789 . See also:

• CAMPER, PETER (1722-1789)

Camper's See also:

• WORKS

works, mainly See also:

• MEMOIRS

memoirs and detached papers, are very numerous; the most important of those bearing on See also:

• COMPARATIVE

comparative anatomy were published in 3 vols. at Paris in 1803, under the See also:

• TITLE (0. Fr. title, mod. titre, from Lat. titulus)

title Ruvres de P . Camper qui ont pour objet l'histoire naturelle, la physiologie, et l'anatomie comparee . His Dissertation physique sur See also:

• LES

les See also:

• DIFFERENCES, CALCULUS OF (Theory of Finite Differences)

differences reelles que presentent les traits du visage chez les hommes de differents pays et de diffcrents ages; sur le beau qui caracterise les statues antiques et les pieces gravees, &c., which was published in 1781 both in Dutch and in See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French, contains an See also:

• ACCOUNT
• ACCOUNT (through O. Fr. acont, Late Lat. comptum, cornputare, to calculate)

account of the facial See also:

• ANGLE (from the Lat. angulus, a corner, a diminutive, of which the primitive form, angus, does not occur in Latin; cognate are the Lat. angere, to compress into a bend or to strangle, and the Gr. ayKOS, a bend; both connected with the Aryan root ank-, to

angle which he used as a See also:

• CRANIAL

cranial characteristic .