John Arbuthnot FRS (baptised 29 April 1667 – 27 February 1735), often known simply as Dr Arbuthnot, was a Scottish physician, satirist and polymath in London. He is best remembered for his contributions to mathematics, his membership in the Scriblerus Club (where he inspired both Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels book III and Alexander Pope's Peri Bathous, Or the Art of Sinking in Poetry, Memoirs of Martin Scriblerus, and possibly The Dunciad), and for inventing the figure of John Bull.
John Arbuthnot
Author details
- Born:
- April 29, 1667
- Died:
- Feb. 27, 1735
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Books by John Arbuthnot
Memoirs of the extraordinary life, works and discoveries of Martinus Scriblerus
by John Arbuthnot, John Gay, Thomas Parnell, and 4 others
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