Johannes Fleischer, Jr., M.D.: The First Scientist at Jamestown, Virginia

Abstract

European scientists took an early interest in the natural resources of English America. Two scientists had taken part in the first, unsuccessful Engfish settlement in 1585-86 of what is today the United States. Thomas Hariot, an English mathematician and astronomer, had described the flora and fauna along the coast of North Carolina and the Chesapeake Bay in his ^4 im efeand true report ofth e new fou n d land ofVirginia. Joachim C ans, a German Jew from Prague, had been the scientist at what National G eographic Magazine called "Colonial A m erica's First Science Center" at their