Raleigh, Walter

Raleigh, Walter. The history of the world.. Edited by William Oldys. Oxford ... 

Shirley, John William. The scientific experiments of Sir Walter Raleigh, the Wizard Earl, and the Three Magi in the Tower, 1603-1617. Ambix 4 (1949-1951) 52-66. 

Chou, Shu-Hua. "Alchemical explication of three Renaissance poetic texts Edmund Spenser s The Faerie Queene Book I Sir Walter Raleigh s The ocean to Scinthia and Michael Drayton s Endimion and Phoebe." PhD thesis, Univ of Manchester, 1996. 

Referenced by Abraham (in relation to Sr Walter Raleigh and his use of alchemical imagery ). "A highly readable and authoritative account of Walter Raleigh s failed... 

WALTER w. HECK, U.S. Department of Agriculture, North Carolina State Uni versity, Raleigh... 

Smoking tobacco in pipes for pleasure... was made socially acceptable by Sir Walter Raleigh. Many, however, thought it disgusting and the use of tobacco in this way was virulently attacked. The opposition was led by James I in 1603, and he published a pamphlet... 

In describing his voyage to northern Virginia with Sir Walter Raleigh, John Brereton wrote in 1602 that he had seen Indians wearing elaborate chains, earrings, and collars of copper, and that some of their arrow heads and skull-shaped drinking cups were made of it (44). 

What follows is based mainly on Sir Walter Raleigh and H. A. Jones, The War in the Air, 6 vols. and vol. of appendices (Oxford Clarendon Press, 1922-37) and Cooper, Birth of Independent Air Power, which is more critical of the air forces achievements than the official history. 

The presence of tar sands in North America was notedby American Indians several centuries ago. Pitch recovered from surface deposits was used for waterproofing canoes, It is reported llial Columbus observed asphalt from Pitch Lake in Trinidad and used the material for repairing his ships on his third voyage to the West Indies in 1498. The same bitumen deposit was reported by Sir Walter Raleigh in 1595. For several centuries the material was used for repairing vessels,... 

Curare was first brought to the attention of Queen Elizabeth of England by Sir Walter Raleigh. The remarkable ability of the drug to induce paralysis of the muscles led to its early use by Claude Bernard, Kolliker, Langley, and subsequent physiologists to study the mechanism of neuromuscular activity. However, the uncertain supplies of the drug, its variability, and the effects of its contaminants prevented its therapeutic application. 

Many other references to bitumen occur throughout the Greek and Roman empires, and from then to the Middle Ages early scientists (alchemists) frequently alluded to the use of bitumen. In later times, both Christopher Columbus and Sir Walter Raleigh (depending upon the country of origin of the biographer) have been credited with the discovery of the asphalt deposit on the island of Trinidad and apparently used the material to caulk their ships. 

Mcotiana tabacum (tobacco), JV. spp. (Solanaceae) also in Asclepias syriaca (Asclepiadaceae), Sedum acre (Crassulaceae), Lycopodium spp., Equisetum arvmse (Equisetaceae) tobacco smoking introduced to England from America by Sir Walter Raleigh (subsequently beheaded)... 

Another toxin found in plants, in particular tobacco (which is similar to coniine and is another alkaloid), is nicotine. This substance, with which we are aU familiar, is a very toxic chemical, and its presence in cigarette smoke is the essential ingredient that smokers crave. The tobacco plant and the habit of smoking the leaves, known as tobago, was probably first seen by Columbus and his crew in South America. Sir Walter Raleigh also saw the plant in his travels to the new continent of America. Leaves from the plant were sent back to Europe in the mid sixteenth century, and an explorer by the name of Jean Nicot de Villemain sent some seeds back to Europe. He helped to popularize the habit as a panacea, which became widespread in the sixteenth century. From the explorer s name and the name given to the practice of smoking, the plant was called Nicotiana tabacum. The active substance it contained, isolated in 1828, was called nicotine. 

Sarkany RP. Porphyria. From Sir Walter Raleigh to molecular biology. Adv. Exp. Med. Biol. 1999 455 235-241. 

Potato chips are one of the popular and oldest savory-snacks sold in the United Kingdom. It is believed that Sir Walter Raleigh and Sir Francis Drake brought potatoes to England from Pern in 1570. Soon the crop expanded into various parts of Europe, and by the end of the eighteenth century, potatoes were available almost everywhere in Europe including the United Kingdom. 

Sir Walter Raleigh, History of the World (London, 1609). Philippe Cluver, Germaniae antique libri tres (Lyon, 1616), vol. I. 

Sir Walter Raleigh became especially excited at the prospect of harvesting hemp in the American colonies as early as 1585 after Thomas Heriot, his friend and tutor, told him that he had seen a hemp-like plant growing wild in what was to become Virginia. Heriot s hemp, however, was Acnida cannabinum, a plant which also yields a fiber suitable for weaving, but one that is far inferior in strength to cannabis. 

The introduction of tobacco for pipe smoking by Sir Walter Raleigh introduced the British population to the pleasures of tobacco smoking, which has remained although nowadays cigarettes and... 

Why is grass green Why not red or any other colour Come to think of it, why is blood red Nearly 400 years ago, questions such as these had the best brains of the time (the metaphysicians) scratching their heads both John Donne and Sir Walter Raleigh thought that our ignorance of the answers to these questions was clear evidence of man s spiritual bankruptcy. 

By Sir Walter Raleigh, Knt Edited by Sir Robert H. Schomburgk, Phil.D. (1848.)... 

Walter Raleigh s great cordial , composed of viper s flesh, bezoar, hartshorn, coral, pearls, etc. ... 

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