2015
DOI: 10.1177/0967772015608053
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Anecdotes to the life and times of Sir Richard Owen (1804–1892) in Lancaster

Abstract: Sir Richard Owen, a Lancastrian, was a prominent biologist, comparative anatomist, geologist, palaeontologist and known for coining the term dinosaur. His expertise in anatomical dissection proved to be one of his biggest assets and aided his career progression at the Royal College of Surgeons and the Zoological Society. Owen's apprenticeship in Lancaster helped him to gain expertise in anatomy and anatomical dissection. The authors aim to provide some novel contextual background to his childhood in Lancaster,… Show more

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“…The Council had faith, and bought him, and he has eaten their hay, oats, rice, carrots and bread in Brobdignagian quantities daily ever since, and might have gone on digesting, had he not, by some clumsy fall or otherwise inexplicable process, cracked a rib; said fracture injuring the adjacent lung and causing his demise. His anatomy will furnish forth an immortal 'Monograph', and so comfort comes to me in a shape in which it cannot he had by any of my brother Fellows» 8 .…”
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“…The Council had faith, and bought him, and he has eaten their hay, oats, rice, carrots and bread in Brobdignagian quantities daily ever since, and might have gone on digesting, had he not, by some clumsy fall or otherwise inexplicable process, cracked a rib; said fracture injuring the adjacent lung and causing his demise. His anatomy will furnish forth an immortal 'Monograph', and so comfort comes to me in a shape in which it cannot he had by any of my brother Fellows» 8 .…”
Section: Sir Richard Owenmentioning
confidence: 98%
“…Owen fue un escritor prolífico y su producción literaria asciende a más de 600 artículos y diversos libros, de los cuales los más notables son Lectures on Comparative Anatomy and Physiology of the Vertebrate Animals (1846), A History of British Fossil Mammals and Birds (1846), A History of British Fossil Reptiles (1849-84) y On the Anatomy of Vertebrates (1866-68) 8 . En el libro Odontography (1840-45) hace un estudio minucioso sobre la estructura de los dientes y es donde describe las líneas irregulares de la dentina, hoy llamadas «líneas intercementales de Owen» 6,8 .…”
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