See also:

• JOHN
• JOHN (1167–1216)
• JOHN (1290-c. 1320)
• JOHN (1296-1346)
• JOHN (1371–1419)
• JOHN (1468-1532)
• JOHN (1801-1873)
• JOHN (Heb. llni')
• JOHN (ZAPOLYA) (1487-1540)
• JOHN, 4TH MARQUESS OF TWEEDDALE (c. 1695-1762)
• JOHN, DON (1545-1578)
• JOHN, DON (1629–1679)
• JOHN, GOSPEL OF ST
• JOHN, or HAYS (1513–1571)
• JOHN, THE APOSTLE
• JOHN, THE EPISTLES OF

JOHN See also:

• CANTON
• CANTON (borrowed from the Ital. cantone, a corner or angle)
• CANTON (more correctly KWANG-CHOW Fu)
• JOHN CANTON (1718-1772)

CANTON (1718-1772)  , See also:

• ENGLISH

English natural philosopher, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• STROUD

Stroud, See also:

• GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Gloucestershire, on the 31st of See also:

• JULY

July 1718 . At the See also:

• AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

age of nineteen, he was articled for five years as clerk to the See also:

• MASTER (Lat. magister, related to tnagis, more, as the corresponding minister is to minus, less; the English form is due partly to the O. Eng. maegister, and partly to O. Fr. maistre, mod. maitre; cf. Du. meester, Ger. Meister, Ital. maestro)

master of a school in Spital Square, See also:

• LONDON

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 (earlier forms, partener, parcener, from Late Lat. partionarius for partitionarius, from partitio, sharing, pars, part)

partnership . In 1750 he read a See also:

• PAPER
• PAPER (Fr. papier, from Lat. papyrus)

paper before the Royal Society on a method of making artificial magnets, which procured him See also:

• ELECTION
• ELECTION (from Lat. eligere, to pick out)

election as a See also:

• FELLOW

fellow of the society and the See also:

• AWARD (from O. Fr. ewart, or esguart, cf. " reward ")

award of the See also:

• COPLEY, JOHN SINGLETON (1737—1815)

Copley See also:

• MEDAL (Fr. medaille, from Lat. metallum)

medal . He was the first in See also:

• ENGLAND
• ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF

England to verify See also:

• BENJAMIN
• BENJAMIN, JUDAHPHILIP (1811-1884)

Benjamin See also:

• FRANKLIN
• FRANKLIN, BENJAMIN (1706-1790)
• FRANKLIN, SIR JOHN (1786-1847)
• FRANKLIN, WILLIAM BUEL (1823-1903)

Franklin's See also:

• HYPOTHESIS (from Gr. inrorcOivat, to put under; cf. Lat. suppositio, from sub-ponere)

hypothesis of the identity of See also:

• LIGHTNING

lightning and See also:

• ELECTRICITY

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
• ELECTRICAL (or ELECTROSTATIC) MACHINE

electrical discoveries . In 1762 and 1764 he published experiments in refutation of the decision of the Florentine See also:

• ACADEMY, GREEK
• ACADEMY, ROYAL

Academy, at that time generally accepted, that See also:

• WATER

water is incompressible; and in 1768 he described the preparation, by calcining See also:

• OYSTER

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

sulphur, of the phosphorescent material known as See also:

• CANTON
• CANTON (borrowed from the Ital. cantone, a corner or angle)
• CANTON (more correctly KWANG-CHOW Fu)
• CANTON, JOHN (1718-1772)

Canton's See also:

• PHOSPHORUS (Gr. 4ws, light, sPEpety, to bear)

phosphorus . His investigations were carried on without any intermission of his See also:

• WORK

work as a schoolmaster . He died in London on the 22nd of See also:

• MARCH
• MARCH (1) (from Fr. marcher, to walk; the earliest sense in French appears to be " to trample," and the origin has usually been found in the Lat. marcus, hammer; Low Lat. marcare, to hammer; hence to beat the road with the regular tread of a soldier: cf.
• MARCH, AUZIAS (c. "1395-1458)
• MARCH, EARLS OF
• MARCH, FRANCIS ANDREW (1825– )

March 1772 .