Evelyn, John

Evelyn, John (1620-1706) English educated writer and one of the founders of the Royal Society in London (1660). 

Effects of SO2 pollution in London dramatically described to Charles 0 by John Evelyn (p. 698). 

The oldest form of combined heat and power is the smokejack, developed in Tibet to turn prayer wheels during religious ceremonies. Captured Tartar slaves introduced this device into Europe by the early fourteenth centuiy and Leonardo da Vinci sketched one around 1480. Commentators as diverse as Montaigne (1580), John Evelyn (1675), and Benjamin Franklin... 

Also in the 17th century John Evelyn wrote in his Herbal, "If the medicinal properties of its leaves, bark and berries were fully known, I cannot tell what our countryman could all for which he might not fetch a remedy from every hedge, either for sickness or wounds." Evelyn also claimed that elder would help assist longevity and was effective "against all infirmities, whatever."... 

Donne, John.The sermons of John Donne. Edited by Evelyn M. Simpson and George R. Porter. Edited by Evelyn M. Simpson and George R. Porter. Berkeley, Los Angeles Univ of California P, 1953-1962. 10 vols... 

In the seventeenth century, John Evelyn published a major treatise on air pollution in London, caused by the widespread domestic use of high-sulfur coal. In it, he noted effects not only on materials ... 

We thank Dr. John R. Porter for advice on plant tissue culture and phytochemical methods and for critical reading of the manuscript. Dr. Anil D Mello for his advice concerning the development of quantitative HPLC methodology, and Jeremy Mihalov, Anne Giordano and Mila Denisova for their invaluable contributions. We gratefully acknowledge PCPS for financial support, namely the Evelyn C. 

On 1 January 1929 he [McBain] was married again to a woman of remarkable ability, Mary Evelyn Laing, who had been on the Science Faculty at Bristol and was a research associate in Chemistry at Stanford.. .. They had one son, John Keith McBain. During all his years at Stanford in the interludes of foreign travel and in India, Evelyn McBain was there to help him with his daily need, whilst she herself, apparently without effort, maintained a high standard of social activity in the home.43(b)... 

To begin with the latter, while it is right that there should be concern over the quality of air, and the subsequent effects of polluted air on the environment, it should be remembered that the air quality in cities in the U.K. is probably better now than at any time in the previous several hundred years. Thus John Evelyn, in 1611, said ... 

John Evelyn, Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest Trees (London, 1664, 1679), p. 118, cited in John Brinckerhoff Jackson, A Sense of Place, a Sense of Time (New Haven Yale University Press, 1994), pp. 97-98. 

A Treatise on Limnology, Vols. I, II, and 111, G. Evelyn Hutchinson, John Wiley Sons, New York, 1975. 

Charles II took much interest in Ic Febure s laboratory at St. James s Palace. In 1662 he took John Evelyn to see it and to meet, as Evelyn wrote in his Diary, Monsieur Lefevre, his chemist (and who had been my master in Paris), to see his accurate preparation for the composing Sir Walter Ralegh s rare cordial he made a learned discourse before his Majesty in French on each ingredient. Samuel Pepys also records in his famous Diary that he paid a visit in 1669 to the King s little elaboratory, under his closet [study], a pretty place and there saw a great many chemical glasses and things, but understood none of them. ... 

Coal contains small amounts of arsenic (typically less than 10 ppm) and burning coal for energy contributed to the arsenic burden in the environment, especially in mining areas. In his Fumifugion published in 1661, John Evelyn riled against toxic air pollution ... 

John Evelyn might have exaggerated the effects of arsenic in local air pollution but that particular source nevertheless represented a health hazard. An epidemic of arsenic poisoning in China has been linked to burning of arsenic-rich coal in stoves to provide heat (26,71). 

It is remarkable that the mixing of air (as it was still regarded as a uniform body) and water with pollutants (accurately referred to as foreign bodies in the old terminology) has been known since Aristotle. The role of precipitation in cleaning the environment is wonderfully described by John Evelyn, who wrote the first book on air pollution (Evelyn 1661 8ff.) ... 

Universitetsforlaget, Oslo, Norway Allen AD (1962) Geological investigations in Southern Victoria Land, Antarctica. New Zealand J. Geol. Geophys. 5 278-294 Amundsen R (1912) The South Pole an account of the Norwegian Antarctic expedition in the Fram, 1910-1912. Two volumes. John Murray, London Anderson PJ (1974) Richard Evelyn Byrd polar explorer. The Iron Worker 28(4) 2-13... 

A History of Women in the West, III Renaissance and Enlightenment Paradoxes, Natalie Zemon Davis and Arlette Farge, eds. (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1993), p. 449 John Mann, Magic, Murder and Medicine, (Oxford University Press, New York, 1994) Evelyn Reed, Woman s Evolution from Matriarchal Clan to Patriarchal Family (Pathfinder, New York, 1975) Rosalind Miles, The Women s History of the World, (Harper Row, New York, 1989), p. 110. 

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