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See also:GOODSIR, See also:JOHN (1814–1867) , Scottish anatomist, See also:born at See also:Anstruther, See also:Fife, on the loth of See also:March 1814, was the son of Dr John Goodsir, and See also:grandson of Dr John Goodsir of Largo. He was educated at the See also:burgh and See also:grammar-See also:schools of his native See also:place and at the university of St See also:Andrews. In 183o he was apprenticed to a surgeon-dentist in See also:Edinburgh, where he studied See also:anatomy under See also:Robert See also:Knox, and in 1835 he joined his See also:father in practice at Anstruther. Three years later he communicated to the See also:British Association a See also:paper on the pulps and sacs of the human See also:teeth, his researches on the whole See also:process of dentition
being at this See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time distinguished by their completeness; and about the same date, on the nomination of See also:Edward See also:Forbes, he was elected to the famous coterie called the " Universal See also:Brother-See also:hood of the See also:Friends of Truth," which comprised artists, scholars, naturalists and others, whose relationship became a potent See also:influence in See also:science. With Forbes he worked at marine See also:zoology, but human anatomy, See also:pathology and See also:morphology formed his See also:chief study. In 184o he moved to Edinburgh, where in the following See also:year he was appointed See also:conservator of the museum of the See also:College of Surgeons, in See also:succession to See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William See also:Macgillivray. Much of his reputation rested on his knowledge of the anatomy of tissues. In his lectures in the See also:theatre of the college in 1842–1843 he evidenced the largeness of his observation of See also:cell-See also:life, both physiologically and pathologically, insisting on the importance of the cell as a centre of See also:nutrition, and pointing out that the organism is subdivided into a number of departments. R. See also:Virchow recognized his indebtedness to these discoveries by dedicating his Cellular Pathologie to Goodsir, as " one of the earliest and most acute observers of cell-life." In 1843 Goodsir obtained the See also:post of See also:curator in the university of Edinburgh; the following year he was appointed demonstrator of anatomy, and in 1845 curator of the entire museum. A year later he was elected to the See also:chair of anatomy in the university, and devoted all his energies to anatomical See also:research and teaching.
Human myology was his strong point; no one had laboured harder at the dissecting-table; and he strongly emphasized the See also:necessity of practice as a means of research. He believed that anatomy, See also:physiology and pathology could never be properly advanced without daily See also:consideration and treatment of disease. In 1848 he became a See also:fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, and in the same year he joined the Highland and Agricultural Society, acting as chairman of the veterinary See also:department, and advising on strictly agricultural matters. In 1847 he delivered a See also:series of systematic lectures on the See also:comparative anatomy of the invertebrate; and, about this See also:period, as member of an aesthetic See also:club, he wrote papers on the natural principles of beauty, the See also:aesthetics of the ugly, of See also:smell, the approbation or disapprobation of sounds, &c. Owing to the failing See also:health of See also:Professor Robert See also:Jameson, Goodsir was induced to deliver the course of lectures on natural See also:history during the summer of 1853.
The lectures were See also:long remembered for their brilliancy, but the See also:infinite amount of thought and exertion which they cost See also:broke down the health of the lecturer. Goodsir, nevertheless, persevered in his labours, See also:writing in 1855 on organic See also:electricity, in 1856 on morphological subjects, and afterwards on the structure of organized forms. His speculations in the latter domain gave See also:birth to his theory of a triangle as the mathematical figure upon which nature had built up both the organic and inorganic worlds, and he hoped to See also:complete this triangle theory of formation and See also:law as the greatest of his See also:works. In his lectures on the See also:skull .and See also:brain he held the See also:doctrine that symmetry of brain had more to do with the higher faculties than bulk or See also:form. He died at Wardie, near Edinburgh, on the 6th of March 1867, in the same cottage in which his friend Edward Forbes died. His anatomical lectures were remarkable for their solid basis of fact; and no one in See also:Britain took so wide a See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
field for survey or marshalled so many facts for anatomical tabulation and See also:synthesis.
See Anatomical See also:Memoirs of John Goodsir, F.R.S., edited by W. See also:Turner, with Memoir by H. See also:Lonsdale (2 vols., Edinburgh, 1868), in which Goodsir's lectures, addresses and writings are epitomized; Proc. See also:Roy. See also:Soc. vol. iv. (1868) ; Trans. Bot. Soc. Edin. vol. ix. (1868).
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