John Kidd (chemist)

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John Kidd
Great Britain
Died7 September 1851(1851-09-07) (aged 75)
Oxford
NationalityEnglish
Scientific career
FieldsChemistry
Geology

John Kidd (10 September 1775 – 7 September 1851) was an English physician, chemist and geologist who took a leading role in Oxford's "scientific awakening" in the early years of the nineteenth century.[1]

Biography

Kidd was born in

geological chair, first held by Buckland, was established.[3]

Kidd's two geological publications — his Outlines of Mineralogy (1809) and Geological Essay on the Imperfect Evidence in Support of a Theory of the Earth (1815) — have been described as providing "the seeds of an Oxford school of geology," characterized by a distinctive emphasis on

Sir Christopher Pegge; and in 1834 he was appointed keeper of the Radcliffe Library
.

In March 1822 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.[5] In 1830 the president of the Royal Society appointed him as one of the eight authors of the Bridgewater Treatises "on the Power, Wisdom, and Goodness of God as Manifested in the Creation."[6][7] His treatise on the "Adaptation of External Nature to the Physical Condition of Man," which was published in 1833, offered "a popular rather than a scientific exposition of facts"[8] and set out to protect readers from materialism and the transmutation of species.[9] Kidd refused to "maintain an argument" about natural theology, addressing himself "exclusively to those who are believers."[10] He delivered the Harveian Oration before the Royal College of Physicians in 1836.

Publications

  • Outlines of Mineralogy (1809)
  • A Geological Essay on the Imperfect Evidence in Support of a Theory of the Earth (1815)
  • On the Adaptation of External Nature to the Physical Condition of Man (1833). This was the second
    Bridgewater Treatise
    .

See also

References

  1. ISBN 978-0-19-951016-0
    .
  2. ISBN 0854041397
    )).
  3. S2CID 71771394
    .
  4. ISBN 978-0-19-861412-8. Retrieved 19 September 2022. (Subscription or UK public library membership
    required.)
  5. ^ "Search Results". catalogues.royalsociety.org. Retrieved 19 September 2022.
  6. S2CID 145411440
    .
  7. ISBN 978-0-19-861412-8. Retrieved 19 September 2022. (Subscription or UK public library membership
    required.)
  8. ^ Kidd, John (1833). On the Adaptation of External Nature to the Physical Condition of Man: Principally with Reference to the Supply of His Wants, and the Exercise of His Intellectual Faculties. London: W. Pickering. pp. vii.
  9. ISBN 978-0-226-81576-3
    .
  10. ^ Kidd, John (1833). On the Adaptation of External Nature to the Physical Condition of Man: Principally with Reference to the Supply of His Wants, and the Exercise of His Intellectual Faculties. London: W. Pickering. pp. viii–ix.

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