Lalande, Joseph Jérôme Lefrançois de.
Bland arbeten.
Encyclopédie ou dictionnaire universel raisonné des connaissances humaines.
Engelsk kartritare vid mitten av 1800-talet. Enligt hans egna upplysningar på kartorna var han medlem av Royal Geographical Society. Inga övriga upplysningar hittade.
June 14, 1726 - December 16, 1798.
Was a Welsh naturalist and antiquary.
The Pennants were a Welsh gentry family from the parish of Whitford, Flintshire, who had built up a modest estate at Bychton by the seventeenth century. In 1724 Thomas' father, David Pennant, also inherited the neighbouring Downing estate from a cousin, considerably augmenting the family's fortune. Downing Hall, where Thomas was born in the 'yellow room', became the main Pennant residence.
Pennant received his early education at Wrexham grammar school, before moving to Thomas Croft's school in Fulham in 1740. In 1744 entered Queen's College, Oxford, later moving to Oriel College. Like many students from a wealthy background, he left Oxford without taking a degree, although in 1771 his work as a zoologist was recognised with an honorary degree.
At the age of twelve, Pennant later recalled, he had been inspired with a passion for natural history through being presented with Francis Willughby's Ornithology. A tour in Cornwall in 1746-1747, where he met the antiquary...
Ingermanlandiae – Homanns Erben 1734
'Gotland.' - Stockholm 1884.