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John Bartram: Naturalist of the New World |
| Section: NATURAL SCIENCE / SCIENTISTS: PAST AND PRESENT |
| Author: L. Wilbur Zimmerman |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 5/1/1995 |
| Size: 2,544 Words, 16,127 Characters |
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John Bartram (1699-1777), a colonial botanist, farmer, and avid and eclectic reader, was the first native-born American of European parentage to receive international recognition as a scientist.
Among the pioneer naturalists of America, Bartram stands out as the epitome of egalitarianism. Benjamin Franklin, a great friend of his, is another example of a man born in humble circumstances who rose to distinction and honor. Bartram achieved this nine years before Franklin when an invited paper of his, describing a cross between red and white forms of the then-common garden flower rose campion, was read before the Scientific Society of Leiden in 1739. Bartram was not the first successful hybridizer, but he was the first to make a deliberate experiment and to describe it, in Latin, so accurat...
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...eyard of Darby Meeting.
As a man, Bartram is too big to encapsulate. As an observer, he was sensitive enough to know that nature should be taken on its own terms. He understood that the only way to satisfy his curiosity was to accept this restriction. This acceptance liberated Bartram's powers of observation, which led to his numerous remarkable hypotheses and guided him on his daily path.
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