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Scottish physician, satirist and polymath in London (1667-1735)
Also known as: John Arbuthnott, P. P., Clerk of this Parish, Джон Арбетнот, جون أربوثنوت, ジョン・アーバスノット, 约翰·亚毕诺
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- Law is a bottomless-pit
- The history of John Bull
- Tables of ancient coins, weights and measures
- An appendix to John Bull still in his senses, or, Law is a bottomless-pit
- An essay concerning the effects of air on human bodies