Tabor, John

1. Dates

Born: Faccombe, Hampshire, 1667

Died: England, presumbly after 1724

Dateinfo: Death Unknown

Lifespan: N/A

2. Father

Occupation: Cleric

His father, also John Tabor, was the rector of Faccombe.

No information on financial status.

3. Nationality

Birth: English

Career: English

Death: English

4. Education

Schooling: Oxford, M.A., M.D.

Oxford, Merton College, Oxford, 1684-94. B.A., 1687; M.A., 1690; B.M. in 1694.

5. Religion

Affiliation: Anglican (by assumption)

Note that he did receive degrees from Oxford, which demanded religious conformity.

6. Scientific Disciplines

Primary: Medicine

His major work, Exercitationes medicae (London, 1724), in the school of Freind and Keill, attempted to incorporate medical animism into a mathematical framework. He devoted considerable attention to detailed formulations of the shape and elasticity of muscle fibers and offered a comprehensive account of the heart's structure and function. His work had little influence.

7. Means of Support

Primary: Medicine

This is a guess, based on his degree and his publication of a medical work thirty years later.

8. Patronage

Type: None

9. Technological Involvement

Type: Medical Practice

Obviously a guess again.

10. Scientific Societies

Memberships: None

Sources

1. Not in DNB.
2. Joseph Foster, Alumni Oxonienses, 4, (Oxford, 1892), 1453.
3. Not in Wood.
4. J.R.Partington, A History of Chemistry, 2, (London, 1961), 623- 5.
5. As should be evident, precious little is known about this guy.

Not Available and Not Consulted

1. Kurt Spengel, Versuch einer pragmatischen Geschichte der Arzneikunde, 3rd ed., 5, (Halle, 1828), 233-4, 349. This appears to be only on his medical ideas.

Compiled by:

Richard S. Westfall

Department of History and Philosophy of Science

Indiana University

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