Gibbon, Edward

Gibbon, Edward. Autobiography. Edited by M.M. Reese. London Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1970. 

During six days, from 2 to 10 June, the Gordon Riots had inflicted more damage on London than Paris would witness in a decade of revolution. When the historian Edward Gibbon saw the blazing prisons, looted houses, and black-coated marchers, he thought he d been whisked back to the... 

Theories abound. The British historian Edward Gibbon (1737-94), whose multivolume work. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, published in 1776-88, blamed the collapse on overindulgence, lapses in military strength, and a weakening of the people s respect for their leaders following the Roman government s adoption of Christianity in the empire s later stages. 

On February 21, 1809, Hatchett became a member of the famous Literary Club which had been founded in 1764 by Dr. Samuel Johnson and Sir Joshua Reynolds (51). As treasurer of the club, Hatchett prepared a brief historical account of it, which appears in Boswell s Life of Johnson (25). The club also included, among others, Edmund Burke, Oliver Goldsmith, David Garrick, Edward Gibbon, Adam Smith, Sir Joseph Banks, Sir Charles Blagden, Sir Humphry Davy, Dr. W. H. Wollaston, Sir Walter Scott, Sir Thomas Lawrence, and Dr. Thomas Young. 

Edward Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, ehap. 52, London, 1776-1788, in a footnote on bitumen in the eontext of Greek fire. Antoine, Comte de Foureroy, Elements of Natural History and Chemistry —translated from the last Paris edition, 1789, being the third—, 4 v., Edinburgh, 1790. 

Keddie, J.S., Edwards, E.-W., Gibbons, T., Shaw, C.H. and Murphy, D.J. (1992a) Sequence of an olesin cDNA from Brassica napus. Plant Mol. Biol. 19, 1079-1083. 

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